question about fonts in xfce4-terminal

[Brian J. Tarricone]

J. wrote:

> I'm thinking to switch from using aterm to xfce4-terminal. However my
> fonts that I use in aterm somehow do not display in the font-selection
> dialog of xfce4-terminal.
> 
> Does the .rc file take font spec's like:
> -dec-terminal-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
> 
> or is there maybe another way of making xfce4-terminal using my fonts ?

I'll assume you're talking about Terminal...  No, it uses 
fontconfig-style names (fortunately, yucky XLFDs are slowly going away). 
  The font is configured via a GUI; no need to edit a config file unless 
you really want to.

	-brian