Changing XTERM Fonts size ....

[Ben Duncan]

Thanks ... looks like that WILL be the ticket ...

Keith Morse wrote:
> 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.
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