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I have recently installed Cascadia Code (because I love its "4") and I can use it in XTerm

$ xrdb -merge
XTerm*faceName: Cascadia Code
^D
$

but, otoh, if I try using the command line

$ xterm -fa 'Cascadia Code'
$ xterm: No absolute path found for shell: Code

(above, the error message is printed after the prompt!).

I know the Unix SE Q&A xterm no absolute path found for shell, and I can understand the error message except that XTerm shouldn't look at Code in isolation.

What I'm missing?

As a follow up to a now deleted comment (ty Chris Davies) I tried xterm -fa 'Cascadia\ Code', xterm -fa 'Cascadia\\ Code', xterm -fa 'Cascadia\\\ Code', xterm -fa 'Cascadia\\\\ Code' to finally realize that any number of backslashes, it doesn't matter.

I'm on Suse Tumbleweed,

$ xterm -v
$ XTerm(389)

(also here the message is printed after the next prompt).

Here it is the output of fc-list:

$ fc-list 'Cascadia Code'
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-Italic.otf: Cascadia Code:style=Italic
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-SemiBoldItalic.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code SemiBold:style=SemiBold Italic,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-LightItalic.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code Light:style=Light Italic,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-SemiBold.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code SemiBold:style=SemiBold,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-SemiLight.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code SemiLight:style=SemiLight,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-Light.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code Light:style=Light,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-ExtraLight.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code ExtraLight:style=ExtraLight,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-ExtraLightItalic.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code ExtraLight:style=ExtraLight Italic,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-Bold.otf: Cascadia Code:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-BoldItalic.otf: Cascadia Code:style=Bold Italic
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-Regular.otf: Cascadia Code:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-SemiLightItalic.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code SemiLight:style=SemiLight Italic,Italic
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    perhaps you have a shell alias, which is causing another layer of interpretation Commented Jun 24, 2024 at 19:05
  • @ThomasDickey Oh my! you're right (as usual…) /usr/bin/xterm -fa 'Cascadia Code' works perfectly. Thank you! Commented Jun 24, 2024 at 20:48

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