Re: Changing font size for xterm

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting Brian Servis (servis@purdue.edu):
> *- On  4 Jan, Brian Fuller wrote about "Changing font size for xterm"
> > What is the best way to change the font size for xterm, emacs etc?
> 
> On the command line:
> 
> xterm -fn <font>
> emacs -fn <font>
> 
> Dynamically:
> 
> xterm:  Ctrl+Btn3
> (I use xemacs so don't know how emacs works on this)  
> 
> Resources:
> 
> XTerm*font:	<font>
> (I use xemacs so don't know how emacs works on this)

I prefer to use (in my .Xresources)

! Make the default font bigger
XTerm*VT100*Font:               9x15
! and make the last two sizes much bigger
XTerm*VT100*Font5:              10x20
XTerm*VT100*Font6:              12x24

as you can then use the VT Fonts menu to switch sizes.

I seem to remember struggling for a while to find the resource
names that worked, i.e. the * / VT100 / letter case.

Cheers,

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