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From: Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:37:57
Message-Id: 4301A4CF.7060407@planet.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ? by Tom Naujokas
1 Tom Naujokas schreef:
2 > On Mon, 2005-15-08 at 22:09 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> The one part I haven't figured out is xterm. If I {ALT-RIGHT-CLICK}
6 >>in an xterm, I get a menu that will alter font sizes. How do I change
7 >>the default font size that xterm comes up with?
8 >
9 >
10 > You can control xterm fonts with either command line options or with
11 > Xtoolkit resources. "man xterm" shows the option:
12 >
13 > -fn font This option specifies the font to be used for displaying
14 > normal text. The default is fixed.
15 >
16 > and for a resource:
17 >
18 > font (class Font) Specifies the name of the normal font. The
19 > default is ``fixed.''
20 >
21 > Reviewing the rest of the man file, there are many other options and
22 > resources for controlling fonts. Far more than I remember from the
23 > last time I looked at this particular man file. Looks like some
24 > experimentation would be in order to determine what works best for
25 > you.
26 >
27
28 The 'simplest' way to control xterm fonts is to edit your ~/.Xresources
29 file to specify the font, or font size, or font encoding, that you want
30 xterm (or terms based on xterm, like aterm or mrxvt) to use, although
31 gnome-terminal and konsole can edit such settings directly in the GUI.
32
33 HTH,
34 Holly
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