On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:56:43PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote: > 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. > > > [...] > > 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... xterm checks the font to see if it supports the VT100 line-drawing characters, and uses its built-in drawing if it doesn't support those. > 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. with bitmap fonts, I'd see problems "just switching" for Chinese. But if I want to see Chinese, I'll use TrueType fonts (a menu option). -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey%invisible-island.net@localhost> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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