How to change xterm font ?
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Fri Feb 25 13:44:00 UTC 2005
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:33:12AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
>
> *I've recently been afflicted with a vision problem and need
> to change the xterm font for improved visibility.
>
> CTRL-Right click permits selection of "Huge" which is almost
> enough improvement but a bold font, perhaps MS Comic would
> be a lot better than the regular font displayed with FC-2.
>
> It appears from "man xterm" that xterm -fs "fontname" should
> do it but that hasn't worked? I may be doing something wrong
> there? I normally use xfce if that has any effect, but Gnome
> is available .
>
> Any suggestion appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia
> *
The option is "-fn". So, e.g.:
xterm -fn 10x20 &
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