Re: xterm fonts

[cga2000 <cga2000@optonline.net>]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
> cga2000 <cga2000@optonline.net>:
> >  On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:57PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote:
> > > I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two
> > > other terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt.  But all three of them
> > > give very small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable
> > > font with the HUGE option in the right-click menu but I need
> > > bigger fonts. How do you exactly specify bigger fonts with xterm?
> > 
> >  I believe that the proper way to do this with xterm is adding stuff like
> >  this to your ~/.Xdefaults file:
> 
> BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and
> .Xresources is used instead.  ymmv.

Interesting.  .Xdefaults still works on debian etch. Did you "deprecate"
it in what is it .. lenny?  Is this documented anywhere?

> >  I don't remember if there's a user-friendly way to add your own aliases
> >  but you can probably just edit the file and add whatever suits you.
> 
> In my ~/.alias file which (on my system) is sourced by login shells, I
> have things like:
> 
> RXVTNEWSFONT='-*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
> alias news='rxvt +sb -fn "$RXVTNEWSFONT" -geometry 136x56+37+21 -e /usr/bin/slrn -h news.spots.ab.ca &'
> 
> [Sorry for the long lines.]

Why keep things clean and simple and use an X resources file when it's
a lot more fun making them messy & complicated, heh?  I was talking of
a standard (and fully documented) X solution for the benefit of the OP. 

> So at a command line, "news" fires up rxvt with slrn running in it
> displayed using RXVTNEWSFONT.

> > > And how do you incorporate the custom xterm options in the default
> > > fluxbox menu? Is there something to edit the menu commands?
> > 
> >  I wish I knew .. :-)
> 
> Smiple.  :-)  Take control!  Copy the system fluxbox configs into your
> own HOME and tell fluxbox to use your configs instead of the system
> configs.  I use blackbox, which is related to fluxbox.  My copies are
> in ~/.config/blackbox, and ~/.blackboxrc is a symbolic link that
> points to ~/.config/blackbox/blackboxrc.  Inside that,
> session.styleFile == /home/keeling/.config/blackbox/styles/TDF, and
> session.menuFile == /home/keeling/.config/blackbox/menu.  Edit to your
> heart's content.
> 
> You may need to stumble about a bit to find the system's versions of
> these files, but they're all flat text files and pretty easy to work
> with.  TDF is in /usr/share/blackbox/styles/TDF.  The others are
> in /etc/X11 somewhere I believe.  "locate fluxbox | less" is helpful
> if updatedb is working (see /etc/cron.{daily|weekly|monthly}/find).

Thanks,
cga