>> In Xterm, everything is configurable through one zilion

> >> command-line options, which, in practice would imply to RTFM and
> >> write one's own script to start it, because it does not read a config
> >> file.


You need to do it once per live.


> guess (eg) which font to choose unless you know by hart the list of
> installed fonts. Therefore, the easiest thing to do is to experiment the
>

xlsfonts + xdg as a one of simplest ways.

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Tomasz Kundera