On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:57PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote: > I installed a minimal X sysetm with > fluxbox and xterm and two other > terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. > But all three of them give very > small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able > to get a reasonable font with the > HUGE option in the right-click menu > but I need bigger fonts. How do > you exactly specify bigger fonts with > xterm?
I believe that the proper way to do this with xterm is adding stuff like this to your ~/.Xdefaults file: !-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! Sensible fonts !-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *XTerm*Font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1 *XTerm*font1: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--14-140-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1 *XTerm*font2: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1 *XTerm*font3: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--20-200-72-72-c-100-iso10646-1 *XTerm*font4: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--24-240-72-72-c-120-iso10646-1 *XTerm*font5: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--28-280-72-72-c-140-iso10646-1 *XTerm*font6: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--32-280-72-72-c-160-iso10646-1 *SimpleMenu*.font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1 Considering the sheer length of X's font definitions it makes more sense to use X resources than entering all the above at the bash prompt. See xterm's excellent man page for more info. You need to bounce your X session for the above to take effect .. or do an "xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults" from a shell prompt. > I am aware it's possible > with -f or -fn option but what comes > after that? Say I wan a 10x20 > font? it doesn't work just by typing > -f 10x20 Maybe this was answered already but you need to check subdirectories of /usr/share/fonts/X11/ .. They usually have "fonts.alias" files where such mnemonics as "fixed", "6x12", etc. are defined. I don't remember if there's a user-friendly way to add your own aliases but you can probably just edit the file and add whatever suits you. > And how do you incorporate the custom > xterm options in the default > fluxbox menu? Is there something to > edit the menu commands? I wish I knew .. :-) > Also how to use the dektop icons that > DSL is able to use with fluxbox? > I already installed fbdesk but it > seems of no use at all or is it > buggy? ibid. Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]