how to enlarge font size in xterm...

[adaaje]

Hi guys,

I know it's abit newbie, but I'm struggling to change the font size in my xterm.

I had a look in "man xterm"
and I try to type "xterm -fs 20", but the font size didnt change...

Please don't laugh, but help thx...

 

[feherke]

Hi

I also tried a lot to change the font size, but no results. :-( I changed it from XTerm's menu. Ctrl-MouseLeft, Ctrl-MouseRight, Ctrl-MouseBoth, one of them. ( Sorry, I have no XTerm right now, to tell you exactly. )

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Annihilannic]

Ctrl-Rightclick is the one.

You can use xterm -fn <font-name> to select a font.

Use the xfontsel command (it's horrible, I know) to choose fonts. For example, I use this font:

[tt]-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1[/tt]

Rather than specifying it on the command line you can add it to your Xresources by creating a file containing some resources such as:

[tt]xterm*background: black
xterm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1
xterm*foreground: grey
xterm*loginShell: true
...[/tt]

And then xrdb -merge <filename> to add it to the X resource database. I have this command in my .xsession script.



Annihilannic.

 

[p5wizard]

depends on what font alias names you have configured, but on my AIX box this works:

xterm -fn 9x15 -fb 9x15bold

You can also use the full font names but that's a lot more typing...


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[adaaje]

Thanks guys,

I've got the answer, I've tried it and it's working.

xterm -geometry 72x34 -fn *-fixed-*-*-*-20-* -fg orange -bg black &

The problem is we need to know exactly the fontname from the command (in my linux) "xlsfonts"

But I still have some issue how to define the color using hexadecimal... Any idea?

 

[feherke]

Hi

Annihilannic, I tried with [tt]xfontsel[/tt] generated strings too, but no success. I will try your advice using resource file just for curiousity because I need only command line solution.

Thanks.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[p5wizard]

-bg "#505050" -fg "#FFFFFF" white on darkish grey

#RRGGBB

RR=red GG=green BB=blue

again, this is on AIX


HTH,

p5wizard