Re: xterm question
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 04:52:54AM EST, Clive Standbridge 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.
> > Suggestions?
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> One way is to put a line like one of the following in ~/.Xresources
>
> *font: 6x13
> XTerm*font: 7x14
>
> The latter affects just xterm, but the former affects anything that
> uses a font resource (xterm, rxvt, emacs, etc.).
>
> You can test changes without restarting X by running
>
> xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
He probably wants:
$ xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
cj
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