Re: xterm font and other options

2023-08-21 Thread Max Nikulin
On 21/08/2023 16:16, Karl Vogel wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 10:38:34PM -0400, Max Nikulin wrote: Xterm configuration options may be put to ~/.Xresources, e.g. xterm*VT100.faceName: ... I am curious if there are actual advantages of usage a wrapper script instead of xresources. ... #

Re: xterm font and other options

2023-08-21 Thread Karl Vogel
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 10:38:34PM -0400, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 20/08/2023 14:55, Karl Vogel wrote: > > #!/bin/sh > ... > > # -fa 'xft:...' font size and weight > ... > > ( $XTERM $geo $topts -fa "$FONT" -title "Remote" ) & > > Xterm configuration options may be put to ~/.Xres

xterm font and other options

2023-08-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/08/2023 14:55, Karl Vogel wrote: #!/bin/sh ... # -fa 'xft:...' font size and weight ... ( $XTERM $geo $topts -fa "$FONT" -title "Remote" ) & Xterm configuration options may be put to ~/.Xresources, e.g. xterm*VT100.faceName: ... I am curious if there are actual ad

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
e class of UXTerm. That's likely - OP is using a wildcard in the font resource: XTerm*font: 10x20 This would work: XTerm*vt100.font: 10x20 -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpheNKS2FJY5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:34:46AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > zhang zhengquan writes: > > >Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me... > > To verify that the correct resources are being used, run > "xterm -fn 10x20". This will start an xterm with that font, > or display an error th

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:42:49AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 08 Apr 2009, zhang zhengquan wrote: > > 2009/4/8 Rob Starling : > > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >> > On Tue, Apr 0

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
zhang zhengquan writes: >Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me... To verify that the correct resources are being used, run "xterm -fn 10x20". This will start an xterm with that font, or display an error that it cannot find the font. If this gives you a different font to what you norma

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Apr 2009, zhang zhengquan wrote: > 2009/4/8 Rob Starling : > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> > > I think I have a

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/8 Rob Starling : > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, >

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Rob Starling
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, > > > so how can I tell my dpi

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > [...] > > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, > > so how can I tell my dpi is low? > > Run > > xdpyinfo | grep -E 'dim|resol' dim

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: [...] > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, > so how can I tell my dpi is low? Run xdpyinfo | grep -E 'dim|resol' and check if it shows the dimensions of your screen correctly. -- Regards,

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:14:33PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > > I put in my .Xdefauts > > XTerm*font:10x20 > > Are you sure your .Xdefaults is being loaded? Depending on how you I think so. xrdb -load ~/.Xd

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > I put in my .Xdefauts > XTerm*font:10x20 Are you sure your .Xdefaults is being loaded? Depending on how you set things up, it's mere existence is not always sufficient. Actually, in looking in the files under /etc/X11, it lo

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:44:18AM +1200, Spiro Harvey wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > but the font is still too small for me and I would like to make it > > larger but I don't know what font sizes are available. > > Could anyone have any pointers on this? > > look in /usr/share/fonts/X11/ fo

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Spiro Harvey
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > but the font is still too small for me and I would like to make it > larger but I don't know what font sizes are available. > Could anyone have any pointers on this? look in /usr/share/fonts/X11/ for fonts.alias files. but if 10x20 is too small for you, then you've eithe

xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community: I tried to find the xterm mailing list but seems we don't have this. since I am running sid I think it might be relevant I put in my .Xdefauts XTerm*font:10x20 but the font is still too small for me and I would like to make it larger but I don't know what font

Re: remote xterm font

2008-02-20 Thread s. keeling
Jamin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Is there a way to dump my local xterm setup ? > [snip] > /etc/X11/app-defaults/xterm - you can use xrdb to dump (xrdb -query) and > merge from file (xrdb -merge) on the remote machine. Cool, thanks, didn't know that bit. -- Any

Re: remote xterm font

2008-02-20 Thread Jamin Davis
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Is there a way to dump my local xterm setup ? It's probably in your ~/.Xresources file or maybe /etc/X11/app-defaults/xterm - you can use xrdb to dump (xrdb -query) and merge from file (xrdb -merge) on the remote machine. Jamin -- Jamin @ Home @ Chester UK -- To UNSU

Re: remote xterm font

2008-02-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:44:49AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Is there a way to dump my local xterm setup ? I don't know xterm, but mlterm can be configured through files in .mlterm/ , by using command-line switches and I think also through xresources. I'm using the file(s) because I know ex

Re: remote xterm font

2008-02-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, thanks for the reply. Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:40:59AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I would like to have the same font on my remote xterms as the on on my local xterms: is there any easy way to do so ? I'm guessing (you didn't specify) by remote you

Re: remote xterm font

2008-02-19 Thread s. keeling
Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I would like to have the same font on my remote xterms > as the on on my local xterms: is there any easy way to do so ? Many. "xterm -fn $your_font ..." "XTerm*font: your-font" in ~/.Xresources and/or ~/.Xdefaults &q

Re: remote xterm font

2008-02-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:40:59AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I would like to have the same font on my remote xterms > as the on on my local xterms: is there any easy way to do so ? I'm guessing (you didn't specify) by remote you mean remote X session. You probably need to cop

remote xterm font

2008-02-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I would like to have the same font on my remote xterms as the on on my local xterms: is there any easy way to do so ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Xterm font debian-user-200011/msg05124.h

2003-12-08 Thread brewhaha
> * From: Jack Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 13:46:47 +0900 > * Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ > >I want to make my Xterm font bigger. I tried control + middle mouse &

Re: Xterm Font

2000-12-01 Thread Erik Steffl
all three mouse buttons have popup menus, right one (mouse button 3) is the one that pop-ups the font menu (just size of font). you can also specify font to use at startup (see man xterm). erik Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > Jack Morgan wrote: > > > I want to mak

Re: Xterm Font

2000-12-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Jack Morgan wrote: > I want to make my Xterm font bigger. I tried control + middle mouse > click but didn't see any option to change the font as the FAQ says. Any > pointers to appropriate docs would be great > Thanks! To quick change the font size try "SHIFT +" and

Re: Xterm Font

2000-12-01 Thread Jack Morgan
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 01:46:47PM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > > I want to make my Xterm font bigger. I tried control + middle mouse > > click but didn't see any option to change the font as the FAQ says. Any > > pointers to app

Re: Xterm Font

2000-12-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 01:46:47PM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > I want to make my Xterm font bigger. I tried control + middle mouse > click but didn't see any option to change the font as the FAQ says. Any > pointers to appropriate docs would be great > Thanks! Ctrl-Right Button

Xterm Font

2000-11-30 Thread Jack Morgan
I want to make my Xterm font bigger. I tried control + middle mouse click but didn't see any option to change the font as the FAQ says. Any pointers to appropriate docs would be great Thanks! -- ~~~ Jack Morgan S

Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 11:54:36PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I've got a couple of boxes running hamm. One has KDE as the wm (excuse me, > "environment"), and the other has FVWM. On both of them, when X starts, > the default xterm window looks great, but if I open another one, the > window is very w

Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-17 Thread Keith Beattie
to set these but they seemed to work. --- ! File: .Xdefaults ! This is where resources are specified for X applications ! ! To Reload these setting onto the X server use: ! ! xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults ! XTerm*font: 9x15 XTerm*boldfont: 9x15bold XTerm*menufont: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-

Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-17 Thread Frank Smith
Having an xterm with widely-spaced fonts is usually an indication that you are trying to use a proportional font instead of a fixed-width font. This can confuse the X server if it can't handle proportional fonts or the fon't doesn't have the width information necessary. I don't think most xterms c

Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-17 Thread Kent West
At 09:43 AM 12/17/1998 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > >> I've got a couple of boxes running hamm. One has KDE as the wm (excuse me, >> "environment"), and the other has FVWM. On both of them, when X starts, >> the default xterm window looks great, but if I open another one, the >> window is very wid

Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-17 Thread Helge Hafting
> I've got a couple of boxes running hamm. One has KDE as the wm (excuse me, > "environment"), and the other has FVWM. On both of them, when X starts, > the default xterm window looks great, but if I open another one, the > window is very wide and the font is widely spaced, l i k e t h i s. I've

xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-17 Thread Kent West
I've got a couple of boxes running hamm. One has KDE as the wm (excuse me, "environment"), and the other has FVWM. On both of them, when X starts, the default xterm window looks great, but if I open another one, the window is very wide and the font is widely spaced, l i k e t h i s. I've tried loo

xterm font in xfree86 3.2

1996-11-18 Thread Craig Sanders
following in my ~/.Xdefaults file: *XTerm*foreground: white *XTerm*background: blue white text on a blue background is a lot less painful on the eyes after 10 or more hours at the computer (high contrast, low glare). Unfortunately, this makes it even worse. It seems as if they new xterm