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Fonts in XFCE Terminal

How do you change the font in a xterm/terminal shell
in xfce?
I looked in settings but didn't find anything.

What would you want to change?
You can start it with
xterm -font 9x15 > larger fonts
xterm -bg black -fg white > Black background, white foreground
xterm -title Myterm > puts Myterm in title at the top
- and it can be combined. Mine is
xterm -font 9x15 -bg black -fg white -title Term
... and a geometry setting which is only relevant for the Window size.

touch a file with the name of $HOME/.Xresources with the content like :

Code:

! ===========================================================================

! XTerm resources



! Look similar to the Linux Console

! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

XTerm*background: black

XTerm*foreground: white

XTerm*cursorColor: yellow

XTerm*Title: XTerm

XTerm*scrollBar: true

XTerm*saveLines: 10000



! Fonts for different resolutions and character encodings

! By default English encoding is set. How to set different encodings:

! - Polish encoding: apply "-iso8859-2" at the end of the font string

! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

! Englsh encoding

! 640x480

!XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-*

! 800x600

!XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-*

! 1024x768

XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*

! 1152x864

!XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*

! 1280x1024

!XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-*



! Colors similar to those used in Linux Console (ttyX)

! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

XTerm*color0: rgb:0/0/0

XTerm*color1: rgb:cc/00/00

XTerm*color2: rgb:00/cc/00

XTerm*color3: #bd5e01

XTerm*color4: rgb:00/00/cc

XTerm*color5: rgb:cc/00/cc

XTerm*color6: rgb:00/cc/cc

XTerm*color7: rgb:aa/aa/aa

XTerm*color8: rgb:33/33/33

XTerm*color9: rgb:ff/00/00

XTerm*color10: rgb:00/ff/00

XTerm*color11: rgb:ff/ff/00

XTerm*color12: rgb:00/00/ff

XTerm*color13: rgb:ff/00/ff

XTerm*color14: rgb:00/ff/ff

XTerm*color15: rgb:ff/ff/ff

! Default XTerm colors

! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

!XTerm*color0: black

!XTerm*color1: red3

!XTerm*color2: green3

!XTerm*color3: brown

!XTerm*color4: blue3

!XTerm*color5: magenta3

!XTerm*color6: cyan3

!XTerm*color7: gray90

!XTerm*color8: gray30

!XTerm*color9: red

!XTerm*color10: green

!XTerm*color11: yellow

!XTerm*color12: blue

!XTerm*color13: magenta

!XTerm*color14: cyan

!XTerm*color15: white

with the beginning of ! for comments.

You can also use xfontsel to select any font you desire to print out you console doings. I have sth like this:

Code:

xfterm4 -bg black -fg grey -ls -fn -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2

The XFCE xterm fonts are tiny aren't they.

You can hold the <ctl> key and right click on the xterm and it should bring up options for other font sizes.

... or you may want to install Terminal. It's lightweight, Gtk+ based and similar to gnome-terminal.

On the XFCE site there is an .Xresources to make xterm look cool, at the top of the file you will find instructions on how to use it (xrbd -merge .Xresources if I'm not mistaken).

OK where is Xresources???
"No such file or directory"
cd $Home/.Xresources

So i create the Xresouces file in the HOME directory?
How does xterm know where to look for the file?

EDIT:
Thanks guys, I have the book "Running Linux" that I bought
a coupls of weeks ago, looked up 'xresources' in the index and
found everything I needed to know.
I know have a .Xdefaults file and updated the .xintrc script.
Change my fonts and back/foreground to something a little more readable.
thanks for all the input.