On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 11:20:31PM -0400, Lee wrote:
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> That's something I would have never guessed. Hold down the <ctrl> key
> + right click and hold _inside_ the xterm window and I get a menu that
> lets me select "large" as a font size. So at least the xterm window
> contents are readable now.
>
> No option to save that setting, but still.. progress, so thank you!
Xterm is configured via X resources. Their defaults live in files,
one system-wide and one per-user. The system-wide resources typically
live in the /etc/X11/Xresources directory, one file for each application,
the user-specific ones, which override the system-wide ones typically live
in your home directory, in one file, ~/.Xresources.
The idea is that the distribution and the sysadmin set the baseline and
each user can change those things which don't fit for her.
The Arch Linux wiki [1] has, as often, a pretty good overview for that,
with links for specific Xterm examples.
I set my preferred Xterm putting this in my .Xresources (NOTE: leading
space here for clarity -- remove that!
*VT100.faceName: Liberation Sans Mono
*VT100.faceSize: 8
*VT100.faceSize1: 3
*VT100.faceSize2: 5
*VT100.faceSize3: 8
*VT100.faceSize4: 10
*VT100.faceSize5: 14
*VT100.faceSize6: 20
Thus you can set the sizes of all fonts offered to you in that menu
("unreadable", "tiny" ... "huge").
Note also that the sizes given here might be a tad too small for you:
I'm a bit myopic myself :-D
Cheers
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_resources
-- t
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