Re: xterm font size
Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:00:59PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
>> The xterm fonts are nice, but too small. I can use xfontsel to browse
>> fonts, but I can't seem to find the one xterm is using (so that I
>> might make it bigger). Is there a way to tell what font my xterm is
>> using?
> Note that recent xterms can also use antialiased TrueType fonts, which
"recent", since:
Patch #156 - 2001/4/28 - XFree86 4.0.3
Patch #151 - 2001/3/10 - XFree86 4.0.2
Patch #148 - 2000/10/31 - XFree86 4.0.1d
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html
> look much better IMO. But the option syntax is completely different:
> For example:
> XTerm*faceName: bitstream vera sans mono
> XTerm*faceSize: 14
> XTerm*faceSize1: 8
> XTerm*faceSize2: 9
> XTerm*faceSize3: 10
> XTerm*faceSize4: 12
> XTerm*faceSize5: 16
> XTerm*faceSize6: 20
btw, If the face-sizes aren't specified, they're computed based on the
bitmap font-sizes...
> (I use a big monitor, and I have aging eyes, so I like bigger fonts ...)
I usually use the largest bitmap fonts - the TrueType fonts have generally
poor coverage of Unicode.
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