what font is used in gnome-terminal in f17?

fetchinson · #1 18th October 2012, 10:12 PM

The default font in gnome-terminal in f17 is really great, I'd like to use it in xterm as well. But how do I find out what font it is? Once I know that I can put it in $HOME/.Xdefaults as XTerm*faceName.

Something related: how do I find out the possible choices for XTerm*faceName?

secipolla · #2 18th October 2012, 10:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fetchinson

The default font in gnome-terminal in f17 is really great, I'd like to use it in xterm as well. But how do I find out what font it is? Once I know that I can put it in $HOME/.Xdefaults as XTerm*faceName.

I have mine in ~/.Xresources
I suppose in that app in GNOME where you choose your default fonts, you may find out.
I use Droid Sans Mono for mine (I think it's a Google font).

Quote:

Originally Posted by fetchinson

Something related: how do I find out the possible choices for XTerm*faceName?

man xterm

nonamedotc · #3 18th October 2012, 11:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fetchinson

The default font in gnome-terminal in f17 is really great, I'd like to use it in xterm as well. But how do I find out what font it is?

Edit --> Profile Preferences.

This should tell you the font used. I think it was Monospace. I don't remember what it was because I currently use Monospace italic and forgot what it was originally set to!

skytux · #4 18th October 2012, 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fetchinson

The default font in gnome-terminal in f17 is really great, I'd like to use it in xterm as well. But how do I find out what font it is?

It is Monospace. I use xterm in this way:

Code:

xterm -bg black -fg white +sb -fa Monospace -fs 11

HTH,
Germán.

PabloTwo · #5 19th October 2012, 02:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fetchinson

Something related: how do I find out the possible choices for XTerm*faceName?

To list installed ttf fonts in a terminal: fc-list
fc-list is part of the fontconfig package.

Code:

BASH:~/-> fc-list | grep "DejaVu Sans"
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed Oblique,Oblique
DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique
DejaVu Sans:style=Bold Oblique
DejaVu Sans:style=Oblique
DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Oblique
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed Bold Oblique,Bold Oblique
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Light:style=ExtraLight
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed,Book
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed Bold,Bold
DejaVu Sans:style=Bold
DejaVu Sans:style=Book
DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book

Code:

BASH:~/-> grep face .Xresources
XTerm*faceName: DejaVuSansMono
XTerm*faceSize: 12

fetchinson · #6 19th October 2012, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

Edit --> Profile Preferences.

This should tell you the font used. I think it was Monospace. I don't remember what it was because I currently use Monospace italic and forgot what it was originally set to!

Thanks a lot, yes, it's monospace 12. But there is a checkbox for bold text, which I also would like to replicate in xterm, how do I do that? I tried

Code:

XTerm*faceName: MonospaceBold

but that didn't do it.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

To list installed ttf fonts in a terminal: fc-list
fc-list is part of the fontconfig package.

Code:

BASH:~/-> fc-list | grep "DejaVu Sans"
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed Oblique,Oblique
DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique
DejaVu Sans:style=Bold Oblique
DejaVu Sans:style=Oblique
DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Oblique
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed Bold Oblique,Bold Oblique
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Light:style=ExtraLight
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed,Book
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed Bold,Bold
DejaVu Sans:style=Bold
DejaVu Sans:style=Book
DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book

Code:

BASH:~/-> grep face .Xresources
XTerm*faceName: DejaVuSansMono
XTerm*faceSize: 12

Thanks a lot! It seems one can combine the font name (DejaVu) with its attributes (Sans, Mono) to end up with DejaVuSansMono but when I tried MonospaceBold the font was not bold. How do I get the default font to be bold then? Gnome-terminal is displaying bold (at least relative to xterm it's much bolder).

Actually I made some progress, the following works quite well

Code:

xterm -fs *-monospace-bold-*-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*

and the font is identical to the default gnome-terminal. Unfortunately I can't control the font size now.
And how would I give this setting to xterm in .Xdefaults or .Xresources?

This is getting weirder and weirder

It turns out

Code:

xterm -fs blablabla

already gives the nice bold fonts. Clearly blablabla is not a valid value but nevertheless it does have an effect (relative to launching xterm without any parameters). Does anyone know what's going on?

secipolla · #7 19th October 2012, 09:58 AM

xterm -fs *-monospace-bold-*-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*

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Quote:

Originally Posted by fetchinson

And how would I give this setting to xterm in .Xdefaults or .Xresources?

Make sure you leave a blank line as the first line (in ~.Xresources at least).

PabloTwo · #8 19th October 2012, 02:59 PM

This worked for me: I don't use bold, I use normal "DejaVu Sans Mono". I modified the faceName line to switch to bold like so:

Code:

XTerm*faceName: DejaVuSansMono:style=Bold

To make any edits to your ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources file active, you first either need to log out and back into your DE session, or do this:

Code:

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

Interestingly, there is no "Monospace" ttf font available in F16 except as provided by the cups package, which puts it's fonts in /usr/share/cups/fonts/, which doesn't appear in the fc-list list.

fetchinson · #9 19th October 2012, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

This worked for me: I don't use bold, I use normal "DejaVu Sans Mono". I modified the faceName line to switch to bold like so:

Code:

XTerm*faceName: DejaVuSansMono:style=Bold

Great, thanks a lot!

vallimar · #10 19th October 2012, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

Interestingly, there is no "Monospace" ttf font available in F16 except as provided by the cups package, which puts it's fonts in /usr/share/cups/fonts/, which doesn't appear in the fc-list list.

"Monospace" is just an alias, like "Sans" and "Serif".
I believe Fedora gives the DejaVu fonts lower rule numbers than other
packaged fonts, so they tend to be the system defaults if they are installed.
I don't have extensive experience in their font configs though so I may be
wrong about that.