fonts and AIXwindows and aixterm

[Simon McClenahan]

What is the deal with aixterm ? How do I make the mouse selection over several
lines wrap around like with an xterm, i.e. when I select a line of text that is
larger than 80 characters on an aixterm that is only 80 wide, I don't want a CR
in the middle of it when I paste into another window!

I want to use the 7x10 font. xterm gives me no complaints, but aixterm does:

% aixterm
1363-011 aixterm: Cannot use font
-ibm--medium-r-medium--14-0-100-100-c-70-ibm-special.
The size of this font is not the same as the normal font.

Does aixterm have its own app-defaults resource file? Does it only use XTerm
resources? How do I map the PageUp/PageDown keys to scroll the window, like I
can do with xterm?

As for fonts, when I startx (when I login on an Xstation), some of the fonts
are not loaded and default to some horrible standard font. My digital xclock
font is not what I specify it to be in my .Xresources when I startup, sometimes
my Netscape program goes to some horrible font... How do I tell which fonts are
loaded and/or available ?

So many questions...

cheers,
--
Simon McClenahan, an Australian in Iowa USA,
and an "I found my wife on the Internet" guy.
Business: smccl...@mcimail.com
Pleasure: sp...@ins.netins.net

[Pete Forman]

In article <1995Jun9.0...@bbs.sd68.nanaimo.bc.ca> Simon McClenahan <sp...@ins.netins.net> writes:
[other questions deleted]

> I want to use the 7x10 font. xterm gives me no complaints, but aixterm does:
>
> % aixterm
> 1363-011 aixterm: Cannot use font
> -ibm--medium-r-medium--14-0-100-100-c-70-ibm-special.
> The size of this font is not the same as the normal font.

Aixterm "intelligently" determines what bold and italic fonts to use
from the normal font if none is specified. If the bold font turns out
to be a different size then you get your observed warning. Try
setting boldFontSet to 7x10bold if such a font exists. If not then
7x10 should work but bold text may not be distinguishable.

If xterm cannot get a proper bold font it will overstrike the normal
one. Aixterm has no such feature.

--
Pete Forman
Western Geophysical
pete....@bedford.waii.com