Our question was:
Dear tru(e) 64 managers (there are certainly more than that out
there),
we are looking for a possibility to start e.g. xterm as an eXcursion
3.0 application using a non default font (i.e. other that "fixed",
which is not capable of dealing with umlauts) and are facing the
following problems:
A natural choice would be to define an eXcursion app like this one:
/usr/bin/X11/xterm -fn -adobe-*-medium-r-*-*-14-720-0-*-m-*-iso8859-1
-sb -sl 255 -ls -ti HOSTNAME
Unfortunately this will end with a GPF:
LAUNCH verursachte einen Fehler durch eine ungültige Seite
in Modul LAUNCH.EXE bei 0137:0040d3e7.
...
We tried to define the font via .Xdefaults or via
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults, but to no avail.
Any help is very much appreciated.
There was no answer, but we found the solution ourselves, partly
through an article in the c't magazine 12/99.
a) personal setting
If you wish to change the default font only for yourself, edit
.Xdefaults in your home directory and add a line like this one:
xterm *Font: -adobe-*-bold-r-*-*-14-720-0-*-m-*-iso8859-1
b) global setting
All users are affected if you modify /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
In our case, we added the following line:
HOST:/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults# diff XTerm.orig XTerm
76a77
> *vt100.font: -adobe-*-medium-r-*-*-14-720-0-*-m-*-iso8859-1
HOST:/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults#
You can use resedit to find the appropriate names for widget
propeties.
Other Applications could be modified accordingly.
Regards,
Thomas Meyer, EDV-Systemadministrator
email: Thomas.Meyer_at_dla-marbach.de
smail: Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
Schillerhoehe 8-10
D-71672 Marbach
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Received on Wed Jul 07 1999 - 08:37:07 NZST