Bug#299669: xterm: select alternative font at startup

[Carlos <angus@quovadis.com.ar>]

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>, 2005-03-15 21.26 CET]
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:40:12PM +0100, Carlos wrote:
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > I want to select an alternative font at startup. Now I have to do
> > Shift-KP_Add twice every time I open an xterm or uxterm. I would want one of
> > these (or similar):
> > 
> >     xterm -xrm '*vt100*defaultFont: 5'
> > or  xterm -xrm '*vt100*initialFont: 5'
> > or  xterm --send-event 'set-vt-font(5)'
> 
> But you can certainly modify your personal resource file to do this.

Yes, I can change *vt100*font and *vt100*font2-6. But can't specify, without
changing them, which one to use at startup. (Or do I? I found nothing in the
docs.)

(Note that the resource strings mentioned in my original message, or the
parameter, don't exist.)

There is a feature, the resource string "*tex4014*initialFont", which
(according to the documentation) does what I want, but to some mysterious
'Tektronix window'. I would like to have the same feature in the VT100
window.

Thanks for your attention.