Re: Fonts in Xterm

jjohnson_at_hotmail.com
Date: 06/19/05 

Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:15:43 GMT

"Bit Twister" wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:30:47 GMT, jjohnson@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>
>> Good effing grief. Got one that pulls out people's fingernails
>> when they hit a particular combination of keys?
>
> there was one fortune like rm -r / :)

That'd get my attention!

>
>> I am dying to hear just what you think this has to do with
>> selecting fonts.
>>
>> Take your time. Have another toke.
>
> Well, the generated script would spin up an xterm with a given
> font. You would not know what the font looked like unless
> something was printetd in the new xterm.
>
> On my box the script generated 4,090 xterm calls. You might
> get tired hitting ls(cr) exit in each xterm after awhile. :)

Clever fellow.

And now I know what your original reference to ls meant.

That's a lot of xterms. I'm thinking that playing with xfontsel
might be a better idea, though I do appreciate your efforts and
especially the lessons about shell programming.

I'm using this right now, and it is pretty nice.

-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-50-iso646.1991-irv

152X58

>
>> In that abs you recommend above, it says that bash scripts
>> need to have "#!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash" at the top.
>
>> You are right!
>
> Having shown that. It would be best to add that first line if
> you plan on running the script in cron or at batch queues.

Okay.

Thanks for your patience, Bit Twister,

JJ

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