On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 12:37:14PM +0000, Van Ly wrote: > RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost> writes: > > > On Thu, 11 Sep 2025, Van Ly wrote: > > > >> When I unintentionally logged out, intending to restart ctwm, and on > >> login the font shrunk, using suggestions from Grok, I think the > >> following were set in Xresources from somewhere. > >> `utf8Fonts' look interesting. > >> > > > > Those look like the defaults from `/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm'. > > That hints at the settings in .ctwmrc and .xsession for fonts have wider Unicode glyph coverage. > > Unicode 17 is released and the chance is good that NOTO fonts will include the new emojis. > > What about setting app-defaults/XTerm to use NOTO utf8Fonts? utf8Fonts is used for bitmap fonts. NOTO fonts are TrueType fonts xterm chooses TrueType fonts using the faceName resource, which ends up finding things like NOTO based on your fontconfig settings. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey%invisible-island.net@localhost> https://invisible-island.net
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