Re: unreadable xterm :)
Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org> writes:
> I have the opposite situation from the OP - a large majority of my
> users insist that the default Xterm font is too tiny and (quite
> rightly) complain about having to manually increase the font size to
> "Huge" whenever they open a new terminal.
See below.
> On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 09:06:28AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
> > You can set any of the fonts with entries in your .Xresources file.
> > There are 6 fonts sizes plus the default, and any or all can be reset.
> > Look at the "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm" file to see what
> > the defaults are (unreadable is nil2 in mine). I use entries such as
> > "XTerm*font:" to set the default, and "XTerm*font3:" to set font 3.
>
> That's all very nice, but, as I read it, that allows you to specify
> that 'font 3 = Helvetica Runic 72' or whatever, but what I (and, I
> suspect, the OP) am looking for is a way (.Xresources would work for
> me, but I suspect the OP needs a command-line option) to tell xterm
> 'when you open, use the Huge font instead of the default font'.
Obviously I was too terse in my first explanation. The 'XTerm*font:'
is used to specify the font descriptor for the desired default font,
and can be the same as any of the six extra fonts, or completely
different. This default font will be the font that the xterm opens
with and the default font in the menu, unless the user overrides it in
some other way. If you have multiple users, you might want to put the
options in "/etc/X11/Xresources/xterm". For example, I have the
following entries in my '~/.Xresources' file:
XTerm*font: -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-3
XTerm*font1: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-3
XTerm*font2: -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-3
XTerm*font3: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-3
XTerm*font4: -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-3
XTerm*font5: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-3
XTerm*font6: -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-iso8859-3
If you are putting these in '/etc/X11/Xresources/xterm', then look at
the '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm' file for the equivalent
resource names. If you think I'm still not clear or too terse, then
ask again.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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