Re: How to set font size of xterm

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2020-04-16 23:49, Martin Neitzel wrote:
> > My problem is the small font size, but I can't
> > seem to figure out how to set the xterm font size.
>
> On top of the excellent advice already given:
>
> Ctrl-RightClick pops up the menue with different sizes from
> "unreadable" to "HUGE".   By default, Shift-Keypad-Minus/Plus will
> also step through theses sizes.  (The manpage provides a mapping
> useful for laptops without a true number pad.)
>
> The "-fn" option / ".font" ressource only refer to bitmapped fonts
> and these achieve only limited sizes.


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One thing to be wary of, if you pick other fonts, there is always the 
risk that you'll have issues with any program who tries to switch to 
other character sets inside the xterm. The DEC drawing character set, 
for example...

I pretty much always just stick with the standard font, and just use the 
xterm menu font to pick size, if I want something else than the default.

  Johnny

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