hi,

i currently use aterm (pkgsrc/x11/aterm) and i would like to know what 
resources (mainly font family, size, ...) does it use. i was looking 
into man to get the information where the initial settings are stored. 
it says:

aterm  accepts  application  defaults  set  in   XAPPLOAD-
DIR/aterm (compile-time defined: usually /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-
defaults/aterm)  and  resources  set  in  ~/.Xdefaults  or
~/.Xresources.
...
If  no resources are specified, suitable defaults will be used.

i don't have aterm in ...app-defaults (i searched the whole /usr) and i 
don't use Xdefaults or Xresources file. where does the application get 
the SUITABLE DEFAULTS mentioned in the man? i was looking into the 
defaults file for XTerm , but it also doesn't contain the font 
specification in the form that i'm used to know (i.e. 
-*-fixed-*...-14-*-...) - it seems that it contains just absolute sizes 
of the characters... (i.e. 7x13, ...)

well, why i would like to know how to specify the defaults? the font in 
the aterm is small and i would like to increase its size - but i don't 
know the name and it's quite hard work to go through all fonts in the 
xfontsel to search for the right one... :o(

by the way, is there any possibility to get the name of the font used 
from the running [xa]term?

regards,
lubos

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Lubos Vrbka
National Centre for Biomolecular Research
Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic

shnek@chemi.muni.cz
http://www.chemi.muni.cz/~shnek
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