Xterm font size

onelung02 · 03-28-2005, 12:37 PM

Hello all, I am running slack 10 with fluxbox and I was wondering if anyone knows how to change the font sizes for the Xterm terminal? My resolution is really high, I like it that way, and becuase of that I can barely read the xterm font. Thanks!

-onelung

samac · 03-28-2005, 12:45 PM

According to the man page the command is

xterm -fs size

samac

onelung02 · 03-28-2005, 12:58 PM

I tried that but it did not work for me. :-(

-onelung

alienDog · 03-28-2005, 01:11 PM

If you are using scalable (and antialiased) fonts, then use -fa [facename] -fs [facesize] on the commandline, otherwise select a bigger font using xfontsel and use something like:

Code:

xterm -fn -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

You can also set the appropriate resources in your .Xdefaults (or .Xresources):

For non scalable (non antialiased):

Code:

xterm*font: -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Or for scalable and antialiased:

Code:

xterm*faceName: fixed
xterm*faceSize: 18

Make sure that you X startup scripts merge the .Xresources or .Xdefaults with:

xrdb -merge [.Xresources or .Xdefaults]

onelung02 · 03-28-2005, 04:34 PM

Worked like a charm. Thank you.

-onelung