[mdlug] xterm question

Michael ORourke mrorourke at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 11 13:11:05 EDT 2008


>>> Michael ORourke wrote:
>>>> Ray,
>>>>
>>>> Couldn't you do something like...
>>>> xterm -geometry 100x40+25+5 -bg cyan -fg red -fn "-*-courier-huge-*"
>>>>
>>>> -Mike
>>> Does this work on your system? It does not on mine, I still get the
>>> "Unable to open font" error.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the sugestion.
>>> Ray
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>> Haven't tried that on my system, but I remember doing
>> something similar when I used to work on a Sun workstation.
>
> Did you ever try running this command on a Sun:
>
> $ look out window
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Yeah, but I don't remember the exact response.  I think it was "can't open 
window" or something like that.

-Mike




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