From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:10:34 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: man/man4/console_codes.4: Mention caveats for xterm(1)'s ESC ] 50 command
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man/man4/console_codes.4: Mention caveats for xterm(1)'s ESC ] 50 command

Fonts are only settable if xterm(1) was launched with the right options
(or X11 resources) that would allow this operation.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Message-ID: <20260710221035.26529-1-jengelh@inai.de>
[alx: wfix]
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/man/man4/console_codes.4 b/man/man4/console_codes.4
index 2fa8368e1..10d2e3b5f 100644
--- a/man/man4/console_codes.4
+++ b/man/man4/console_codes.4
@@ -760,7 +760,12 @@ Change log file to
 .I name
 (normally disabled by a compile-time option).
 T}
-ESC ] 50 ; \f[I]fn\f[] ST	Set font to \f[I]fn\f[].
+ESC ] 50 ; \f[I]fn\f[] ST	T{
+Set font to \f[I]fn\f[]
+(the escape code is normally disabled;
+see "allowFontOps" in
+.BR xterm (1)).
+T}
 .TE
 .P
 It recognizes the following with slightly modified meaning