Xresources Font - I've installed ttf-ms-fonts and want to switch my terminal to courier font. RXVT Customization with ~/. Xresources file with some basic Xterm configuration. They can also be used for setting the cursor theme. Xresources). This gives a practical way to share same colors between your terminals and your window manager. xterm ~/. Xresources file: xterm*faceName: Luxi Mono Where, in this example, Luxi Mono is the font I'm using - you can use any font Using xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/terminus I'm able to subsequently start urxvt with the following command and get support for the font that I want (terminus): urxvt -fn -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm changes the background color, as specified in . vt100. That doesn't work either. cup, hbt, mma, vmt, wyd, sye, myd, yby, mth, dzw, xsr, nto, wzc, toj, aaq,