On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, 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).
Try shift-keypad - and shift-keypad + .
> 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.
What I have in ~/.Xresources is:
*font: -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-25-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*boldfont: -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-*-*-*-25-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
XTerm*font1: -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
XTerm*font2: -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
XTerm*font3: -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
XTerm*font4: -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
XTerm*font5: -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-8-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
XTerm*font6: -*-nil-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
I didn't memorize those font names; I used copy&paste from xfontsel. The
"*" in "*font" matches any application and display where the standard
"foo.:0:0.font" resource is used. At least I think that's how it goes.
Same for "*boldfont". If you change ~/.Xresources, and your changes
aren't immediately effectual, do "xrdb -merge < .Xresources".
> 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.
Try shift-KP[+-] first, to see if you like a font that's already chosen.
You can use "xrdb -query | grep -i 'xterm.*font'" to pull it out. If you
want xterm to use the same default font as everybody else, make sure
there's no "XTerm*font" defined.
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