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Re: Truetype font size



Incoming from Antony Gelberg:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:36:07AM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Antony Gelberg:
> > > 
> > > Anyone know how to change the font size in the following line:
> > > rxvt -fn "-*-trebuchet ms-medium-r-*-*-*-*-100-100-*-*-*-*"
> > 
> > Do you know xfontsel?
> > 
> >   xfontsel -pattern '-*-trebuchet ms-medium-r-*-*-*-*-100-100-*-*-*-*' &
> 
> Yup, it was by mucking about with xfontsel that I got the font line in
> the first place.  I don't see how the above helps me change the size of

In xfontsel, click on "ptSz" and pick one from the list.

> the font.  In the rxvt (or xterm), the font appears to have a space
> between each character.  I have put a screenshot at

That's likely because this is a font that's incompatible with xterm
(ie., it's proportional, and you need fixed).  Choose either "c" or
"m" from the "spc" dropdown.


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