question about fonts in xfce4-terminal

[Bernhard Walle]

* Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> [2007-11-19 20:12]:
> 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.

But the font he wants to use doesn't appear in the GUI. However, on my
openSUSE 10.3 system, this font appears as “DEC Terminal”. Looks like
a Gtk/distribution bug for me.


       Bernhard
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