Changing XTERM Fonts size ....

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
> 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!!!.

He thinks 17" is big?  That's so 2000.  The smallest display in my house
is 17", and that's what my 3 year old uses.

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