On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote: > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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: > > BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and > .Xresources is used instead. ymmv.
Interesting. .Xdefaults still works on debian etch. Did you "deprecate" it in what is it .. lenny? Is this documented anywhere? > > 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. > > In my ~/.alias file which (on my system) is sourced by login shells, I > have things like: > > RXVTNEWSFONT='-*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' > alias news='rxvt +sb -fn "$RXVTNEWSFONT" -geometry 136x56+37+21 -e > /usr/bin/slrn -h news.spots.ab.ca &' > > [Sorry for the long lines.] Why keep things clean and simple and use an X resources file when it's a lot more fun making them messy & complicated, heh? I was talking of a standard (and fully documented) X solution for the benefit of the OP. > So at a command line, "news" fires up rxvt with slrn running in it > displayed using RXVTNEWSFONT. > > > 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 .. :-) > > Smiple. :-) Take control! Copy the system fluxbox configs into your > own HOME and tell fluxbox to use your configs instead of the system > configs. I use blackbox, which is related to fluxbox. My copies are > in ~/.config/blackbox, and ~/.blackboxrc is a symbolic link that > points to ~/.config/blackbox/blackboxrc. Inside that, > session.styleFile == /home/keeling/.config/blackbox/styles/TDF, and > session.menuFile == /home/keeling/.config/blackbox/menu. Edit to your > heart's content. > > You may need to stumble about a bit to find the system's versions of > these files, but they're all flat text files and pretty easy to work > with. TDF is in /usr/share/blackbox/styles/TDF. The others are > in /etc/X11 somewhere I believe. "locate fluxbox | less" is helpful > if updatedb is working (see /etc/cron.{daily|weekly|monthly}/find). Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]