Changing XTERM Fonts size ....

[Keith Morse]

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!!!.

you could do an xlsfonts to get a listing of available fonts and do a
little judicious empirical testing with
xterm -fn $fontname to see what works best for you.