From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: xterm vs gnome-terminal and all-the-icons.el Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:55:37 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86wp06hfc6.fsf@zoho.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516845550 13416 195.159.176.226 (25 Jan 2018 01:59:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 01:59:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 25 02:59:06 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eeWoW-0002OM-NS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:58:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eeWqX-00075C-9L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:00:57 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 63 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:giBgToFNbwAChE0DyFewVz2uS1c= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221704 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115821 Archived-At: joakim wrote: > I noticed that the emacs all-the-icons.el > works in gnome-terminal, but not in xterm. > I'm curious if its possible to get the same > effect in xterm. Does anyone have > this working? I found a SX Q&A page that is helpful [1]. I modernized some of the commands I found there tho. The ones I don't mention, I didn't get to work. You can find out what resources are hooked to xterm with this command: $ DISPLAY=":0" appres xterm (In X, the DISPLAY part can probably be omitted.) You get a lot of stuff from appres(1) (which means "application resources" for you Sherlocks) - the line which is important here tho is probably one which looks like this: xterm*faceName: xft:bitstream vera sans mono bold:size=12:antialias=true This is BTW the same way it is setup in the .Xresources file, which can then be read every time X starts with this line in ~/.xinitrc xrdb ~/.Xresources Also, they mention "xrdb -q | grep -i font" which doesn't give anything sensible in my case as at least I have that face, not "font" - but yes, $ DISPLAY=":0" xrdb -q | grep face works. If in doubt, grep for xterm and get it all :) You can also do: $ sudo lsof -p $(pidof xterm) | grep fonts for where xterm then finds the fonts: xterm [...] /usr/share/fonts/truetype/inconsolata/Inconsolata.otf Somewhat of a surprise, lsof(8) 8? I don't have by default, so I had to get that, and possibly even you as well, but the pack is also named that so it is easy to find. Assuming Debian forks as always... [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96962/how-can-i-find-the-default-font-resource-xterm-is-using -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573