On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:31:54AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > terminals in X usually use the 'fixed' font (correct me if I am > wrong). this is 7x14 over here. how would i go about if i wanted the > fixed font to be 6x9 instead? i know that i could start the terminals > and everything with -fn6x9, but i would prefer a more global solution. My .Xresources has XTerm*font:10x20 in it. Would this fit your required global solution? Brian.