Noob-Qs: StarOffice 8 menu fonts, xfterm4 with spaces in font name ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Total XFCE noob here (running XFCE 4.2.3 on Fedora Core 5 x86-64 -- all
Core/Extras RPMs loaded).  I'm used to using GNOME as a crutch, although
I know how various .X* files work etc..., so my apologies for my
ignorance in advance.  ;->

I have 2 questions/issues ...

1.  StarOffice 8 Update 3 menu/dialog fonts 

Under XFCE, the menu and dialog font Looks like the standard font I'd
get under WINE -- small (8pt?) and ugly.  Running under GNOME has no
issues.  I tried playing with the options for Fonts/View to no avail.
I'm ignorant if it is a service that GNOME provides that StarOffice 8
uses that doesn't launch under XFCE and/or if I need to add something
under ~/.Xresources, etc...

Please advise.  Apologize for my ignorance in advance.

I know, I know, I should probably see what happens if I load
OpenOffice.org (from Fedora).  I'll try it and report back.

2.  xfterm4 doesn't like spaces in font name

I like the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font for my xterm.  E.g., to xterm,
I can pass:  
  xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono"

However, when I attempt to do so with xfterm4, it doesn't honor it:
  xfterm4 -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono"

I finally realized that it doesn't like spaces in the facename (-fa)
option, because I pass something like Courier (no spaces), it works:
  xfterm4 -fa "Courier"

It sounds like the xfterm4 application, which seems to be a wrapper to
xterm (right down to the help), but doesn't preserve the quoting for
arguments.  BTW, I tried single, double or even triple escaping the
quotes to no avail -- e.g.,
  xfterm4 -fa \"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono\"
  xfterm4 -fa \\"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono\\"
  xfterm4 -fa \\\"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono\\\"

Just curious if this was a known bug/issue?

The obvious workarounds are to either call xterm directly or just put
the line "XTerm.faceName Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" in the ~/.Xresources
file.


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