xterm startup font command

[Mike Vanecek]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 22:22:19 -0700, keith morse wrote
> Mike Vanecek wrote:
> 
> >One can use ctrl-right_click to choose a font (or Shft_Key_+) to select a font
> >when using xterm
> >
> >*fontMenu.Label:  VT Fonts
> >*fontMenu*fontdefault*Label:    Default
> >*fontMenu*font1*Label:  Unreadable
> >*fontMenu*font6*Label:  Huge
> >*VT100*font6:           10x20
> >
> >I have not been able to figure out from the doco the startup command to select
> >one of these fonts upon starting xterm. Can anyone help?
> >  
> >
> Simply,
> 
>     xterm -fn 10x20
> 
> would do the one above.  This is another area where X and X-based 
> apps are seemingly infinitely adjustable.  I've experimented with 
> the output of xlsfonts as an argument to xterm, with quite varied 
> results, but when "xlsfonts | wc -l" returns 2184 entries you soon 
> realize time is limited.   I am somewhat fond of  schumacher-clean, though.
> 
> If this gets your juices flowing, research " X resources". Then you 
> can tweak to your hearts content.

Thanks for the additional information. Finding the file

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias

was a good start on figuring out how these things work. Things are so
adjustable as to be difficult to understand.