On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:44:18AM +1200, Spiro Harvey wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com> 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. I found fonts.alias in /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc > > but if 10x20 is too small for you, then you've either got an insanely > low dpi setting, or you're not looking at the 10x20 font. My screen res > is 1920x1200 at 96 dpi, and with the 10x20 font, an 80x24 xterm takes > up almost a quarter of my screen. and I found this 10x20 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1 in the fonts.alias file.
I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, so how can I tell my dpi is low? Thanks! Zhengquan > > > > -- > section .data > sig: db 'Spiro Harvey',0x0a > db 'UNIX Specialist, Writer, Editor',0x0a > homepage: db 'http://twiddle.starforge.net.nz',0x0a -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org