I have done some more work on this question. I hope someone can help me, or can
either reproduce or fail to reporduce this problem (bug?).
I can't change the font in rxvt. rxvt is rxvt-unicode_3.7-r2 from the
OZ feed. rxvt -h
shows it has .Xresources, and encodings for jp so
presumably realy is unicode. xst -read
shows that I have Bitstream
Vera Sans-5. I have Vera fonts in /mnt/card/share/fonts/ttf. When I
try to run xset +fp to that path, I get an error that the directory
does not have fonts.dir.
Putting rxvt*font:xft:Bitstream Vera Sans:pixelsize=5
in .Xresources
in my home directory leads to being loged out when I try to launche a
new rxvt term.
Trying to set fonts on the command line through rxvt -fn does not work
either, thougt not sure i am naming the ttf fonts correctly.
rxvt -fn mono-5
says unable to load specified font, falling back to
fixed.
If I cannot use ttf fonts, how can I change the size of my fixed font?
All I need is something smaller than the default fixed.