Re: mlterm problem

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

On Thu, 2 May 2002 10:39:01 -0700 (PDT),
  "Nadim Shaikli" <shaikli yahoo com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2 May 2002 12:11:09 -0500,
>   "Mohammed Elzubeir" <elzubeir arabeyes org> wrote:
> > 
> > You can also explicitly tell it about your font, by creating a file
> > ~/.mlterm/font with a line like this:
> > 
> >  ISO10646_UCS2_1 =
> >  20,-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-arabeyes-1;
> > 
> > (one line)
> > 
> > and a file ~/.mlterm/main with this:
> > 
> >  ENCODING = utf8
> >  fontsize = 20
> > 
> > and that way you don't have to pass those arguments when running mlterm.
> 
> Very true.
> 
> Setting the font via 'xset', though, will give one the ability to
> access that front from various other applications as well (graphical
> vim, 'vim -g' for instance).  Just an FYI.

A clarification, if you have multiple 10646-1 fonts loaded, you will
have to specify what Mohammed notes above for mlterm to realize which
font you'd like to use.  'xset' is orthogonal to all this (ie. it
continues to be needed).

Sorry for any confussion...

 - Nadim


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