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xterm font chaos

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

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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.

Re: xterm font chaos

Reply #1 –
If there was a crash involved, you should re-install all its dependencies in hopes of fixing it.

Re: xterm font chaos

Reply #2 –
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.

Re: xterm font chaos

Reply #4 –
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources


that is helpful.