Re: [SLUG] XTerm resources

From: Logan Tygart (logan1304@comcast.net)
Date: Sun Oct 05 2003 - 08:20:43 EDT


On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 02:16, Paul M Foster wrote:
> I'm currently running xfce for my wm, and xterm does not have a menu to
> customize font sizes and such on the fly (the way konsole does). The
> fonts in xterm are tiny, and I don't know how to change them. I know
> there's a couple of files (/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm[-color]) which
> contain configuration details for xterm (at least I think that's where
> they are). But I don't know what all the something.otherthing:value and
> *something*otherthing:value are about. I don't know how they work. It's
> also not completely clear from the xterm man page what parameter I
> should use to raise the point size, and what its syntax would be in the
> Xterm config file.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?

To set the xterm fonts from the command line you can type:

xterm -fn <font>

To interactively change fonts:

Ctrl + Third Mouse Button

Or you can build a .xtermrc and include the line:

XTerm*font: <font>

The command xlsfonts will provide a list of available fonts you can use.

HTH,

Logan

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