Re: [Jed-users-l] A big font for xjed?

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

romanocomp@xxxxxxxxx <romanocomp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A question though: how can I put this as my default font? Modern X  
> installation has lost the .Xdefault file, and you have to jump through  
> the hoops to add them... and even doing that, that font does not list  
> as a standard X11 font (being a TTF).

Not entirely.  Try creating a file called $HOME/.Xdefaults-HOSTNAME,
where HOSTNAME is the output of the `hostname`  command.  In that file
put:

   UXjed*font: Inconsolata
   UXjed.facesize: 16

More generally, you can use the XENVIRONMENT environment variable.
>From the X manpage says:

       XENVIRONMENT
          Any user- and machine-specific resources may be specified by
	  setting the XENVIRONMENT environment variable to the name of
	  a resource file to be loaded by all applications.  If this
	  variable is not defined, a file named
	  $HOME/.Xdefaults-hostname is looked for instead, where
	  hostname is the name of the host where the application is
	  executing.

FWIW, I prefer the Inconsolata-g version of the font.  See
<http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html> for more details.

I hope this helps.
--John
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