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Re: xterm question



Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:06:02AM +0000, Brian wrote:
>> On Mon 14 Feb 2011 at 18:25:29 -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
>> 
>> > Every time I launch X I open a couple of xterm windows but have to 
>> > Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before 
>> > it's usable to my old eyes. I'd like to automate that but have
>> > never figured out how.
>> > I've tried set-vt-font in .Xdefaults but that didn't help and don't
>> > see anything in the xterm man page that makes me think it would do
>> > the trick.
>> 
>> XTerm*font: 10x20
>> 
>> in .Xresources.
>
> This is the right approach. Incidentally, it doesn't matter whether
> it's .Xdefaults or .Xresources or anything else, as long as your
> .xinitrc (or whatever X startup system you're using) runs xrdb on
> it. I'll just add one thing.

Does it works in your xterm the beep when in empty commandline at prompt
hit the Down key?

Here it doesn't works.

-- 
Regards, Paul
<http://csanyi-pal.info>


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