Changing XTERM Fonts size ....

[Mike Reinehr]

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:51 pm, 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!!!.
>

Ben,

Take a look in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc. I have a 12x24 font that works well 
with my 19" CRT.

cmr
> 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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