Re: xterm question

[Clive Standbridge <list-user@tgstandbridges.plus.com>]

> Every time I launch X I open a couple of xterm windows but have to
> Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before
> it's usable to my old eyes. I'd like to automate that but have never
> figured out how.
> I've tried set-vt-font in .Xdefaults but that didn't help and don't
> see anything in the xterm man page that makes me think it would do
> the trick.
> Suggestions?

Hi Mike,

One way is to put a line like one of the following in ~/.Xresources

*font:                  6x13
XTerm*font:             7x14

The latter affects just xterm, but the former affects anything that
uses a font resource (xterm, rxvt, emacs, etc.).

You can test changes without restarting X by running

xrdb -load ~/.Xresources

PS I'm not sure whether .Xdefaults is a valid alternative name to
.Xresources


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Cheers,
Clive