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The picture on top you can see my xterm, the picture under is the gnome-terminal.

Ok This is what I want to get:

I use the same font in both but looks different:

Xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono Bold:size=11:antialias=true

how can I fix this?

//EDIT

add more info of my xterm:

ldd `which xterm` | grep -E '(freetype|fontconfig)' libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007f07bcbcc000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f07bb2f3000)

my .Xdefaults

!XTerm*background: #2D2D2D XTerm*background: #FFFFDD !XTerm*foreground: #D2D2D2 XTerm*scrollBar: off XTerm*vt100*geometry: 88x24 Xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono Bold:size=11 XTerm*renderFont: true
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The above is a bitmap font (looks very much like -misc-fixed-*-r-semicondensed). What you need is to enable TrueType fonts in XTerm. Provided your XTerm has been compiled with TrueType support, you want to set the xterm*renderFont property to true in your ~/.Xdefaults (or wherever you may have it).

XTerm*renderFont: true

Alternatively you can do it in the XTerm "VT Fonts" menu which you open with Ctrl + Right Mouse Button, yet that is only per window setting of course.

To make sure xterm is compiled with TrueType support:

$ ldd `which xterm` | grep -E '(freetype|fontconfig)'

you should get something like:

 libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1 libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6
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  • added that but does not look that any changes has made. I edited vi ~/.Xdefaults and then added XTerm*renderFont: true save the changes and do xrdb .Xdefaults with no luck. Acctually the color of the font changes a little like the gome's. but the font is not the same as the one in gnome-terminal. Commented Sep 11, 2014 at 18:33
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    I think it should be xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults. Commented Sep 11, 2014 at 19:45
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    OK actually this does not solve it. I want to do something that actually change the shape of the font like gnome-terminal. Maybe it can't be done Commented Sep 16, 2014 at 21:06
  • Let's focus on what it does so that we can move further. Did you see any change whatsoever? Commented Sep 17, 2014 at 6:56
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    Can you post all your (user) XTerm configuration? But first check, that check xterm has TT support (see my updated answer). Commented Sep 17, 2014 at 13:33
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I believe it's just a typo. Try changing

Xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono Bold:size=11

to

XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono Bold:size=11

(XTerm rather than Xterm)

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