XTerm set font to "large" from command line

introuble · 06-26-2006, 02:57 AM

I need to start an xterm which will have the font size set to "large". Is this possible? What arguments do I have to pass to xterm?

fatra2 · 06-26-2006, 03:24 AM

If you just want to change the font size once in xterm, you can press CTRL and right click the mouse, into the xterm window. You should have a menu that gives you different choices of fonts.

If you want to change the fonts in xterm permanently, you will have to edit the Xresources or the [I]Xdefaults[\I] file on your system.

introuble · 06-26-2006, 03:56 AM

I don't want to change the font size once in xterm and I don't want to change the fonts permanently.

jschiwal · 06-26-2006, 04:11 AM

How about "xterm -fn 10x20".

I just tried "xterm -fn 9x18". This looks much better on my laptop.
Take a look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/. This shows the sizes that you can use.