Changing XTERM Fonts size ....

[Ben Duncan]

Thanks all .... As Mike pointed out, rxvt is the way to go maybe.

I noticed aterm is a rxvt derivative, and now there is PuTty for Linux.

The problem is that xterm is set to start at the largest available
font size, 10 x 20 , in the shell program I set up to run the thing.

example:

#!/bin/sh
# A script to Login to Southware
#      -fn 9x15 \
xterm -title SouthWare \
      -fn 10x20  \
       -e telnet 10.1.10.5

xterm does seem to have a "limitation" on font sizing.

The Comptroller is barking "what good is a BIG monitor, if we
are not using all the avialable screen space". They just
upgraded their users from 14 / 15 inches to 17 inch CRTs!!!.


Mike Reinehr wrote:
> Ben,
> 
> As a fellow Southware user, I'm intimately familiar with this problem. I've 
> found rxvt to be a really good terminal emulation program, but the control 
> codes should be the same as xterm. With rxvt there are five standard fonts 
> (compiled in, I believe) which you access using the control sequence \e]
> 50;#n^G substituting a number between 0 and 4 for n. With Eterm, you could 
> specify your fonts in a configuration file. I'm not sure what you do with 
> plain xterm.
> 
> HTH
> 
> cmr

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