Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-10 Thread James B. Byrne
I now have fonts! I added the font directories found by /usr/sbin/chkfontpath to the Files Section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and following a restart things began to work. The system startup script for xfs makes reference to a /tmp/.font-unix directory. An error message appears on the boot details

Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-10 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, January 10, 2011 12:37, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: >> I copied your file into my home directory as ~/XTerm and took a >> look at its contents. As far as I can see you did not intend >> for me to make any alterations to it to begin with. > > James: >

Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-10 Thread James B. Byrne
On Fri, January 7, 2011 15:00, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: >>I have attempted to set the font size using xrdb and a custom >>.Xresources file. I can change the colour scheme. I can create a >>scrollbar. I can move the scrollbar to either the right or left

Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
According to James B. Byrne: > I have attempted to set the font size using xrdb and a custom > ..Xresources file. I can change the colour scheme. I can create a > scrollbar. I can move the scrollbar to either the right or left > window margin. What I cannot do is to change the font size. That sou

Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-07 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:42:56 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Robert Heller wrote: > > > This is *my* setup: my xterms have a green background, with black text, > > a red cursor, an VT100 geometry of 80x38 (characters), with a scrollbar, > > and using the font specified by > > '-misc-fixed-m

Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-07 Thread m . roth
Robert Heller wrote: > This is *my* setup: my xterms have a green background, with black text, > a red cursor, an VT100 geometry of 80x38 (characters), with a scrollbar, > and using the font specified by > '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-*-1'. Here's a related question: I've played ar

Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-07 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:23:40 + (GMT) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: > > > To: centos@centos.org > > From: James B. Byrne > > Subject: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm > > > > I have a situation where gno

Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-07 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: > To: centos@centos.org > From: James B. Byrne > Subject: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm > > I have a situation where gnome console does not handle vt102 escape > sequences properly and therefor need to employ xterm instead.

Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: >I have a situation where gnome console does not handle vt102 escape >sequences properly and therefor need to employ xterm instead. When >I run xterm from a gnome terminal window I am presented with an >extremely small terminal window employing an almost

[CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-07 Thread James B. Byrne
I have a situation where gnome console does not handle vt102 escape sequences properly and therefor need to employ xterm instead. When I run xterm from a gnome terminal window I am presented with an extremely small terminal window employing an almost unreadably small font. I have attempted to set