I installed xterm on my workstation. I am rebuilding it after a bad hardware crash and xterm is completely broken. The font size selection is not finding any fonts
latbush:[ruben]:~$ xterm
xterm: cannot load font "-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
xterm: cannot load font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1"
xterm: cannot load font "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-m-150-iso10646-1"
I tried downloading all the fonts I could find and xorg and no improvment.
If there was a crash involved, you should re-install all its dependencies in hopes of fixing it.
well, I did a complete reinstall and then installed all the fonts in the archives. It didn't take, however, until I rebooted and then Xterm behaved. I'm afraid that even after all these years I still seem to not understand how fonts work in the terminal for X.
That makes two of us.
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
that is helpful.