Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:10:21AM +0200, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > zhang zhengquan writes: > > >Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me... > > To verify that the correct resources are being used, run > "xterm -fn 10x20". This will start an xterm with that font, > or display an error th

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:34:46AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > zhang zhengquan writes: > > >Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me... > > To verify that the correct resources are being used, run > "xterm -fn 10x20". This will start an xterm with that font, > or display an error th

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:42:49AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 08 Apr 2009, zhang zhengquan wrote: > > 2009/4/8 Rob Starling : > > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >> > On Tue, Apr 0

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
zhang zhengquan writes: >Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me... To verify that the correct resources are being used, run "xterm -fn 10x20". This will start an xterm with that font, or display an error that it cannot find the font. If this gives you a different font to what you norma

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Apr 2009, zhang zhengquan wrote: > 2009/4/8 Rob Starling : > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > >> > > I think I have a

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/8 Rob Starling : > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, >

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Rob Starling
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, > > > so how can I tell my dpi

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > [...] > > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, > > so how can I tell my dpi is low? > > Run > > xdpyinfo | grep -E 'dim|resol' dim

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: [...] > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, > so how can I tell my dpi is low? Run xdpyinfo | grep -E 'dim|resol' and check if it shows the dimensions of your screen correctly. -- Regards,

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:14:33PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > > I put in my .Xdefauts > > XTerm*font:10x20 > > Are you sure your .Xdefaults is being loaded? Depending on how you I think so. xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults is in my startup scrip

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > I put in my .Xdefauts > XTerm*font:10x20 Are you sure your .Xdefaults is being loaded? Depending on how you set things up, it's mere existence is not always sufficient. Actually, in looking in the files under /etc/X11, it looks like it loa

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:44:18AM +1200, Spiro Harvey wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang 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/ fo

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Spiro Harvey
Zhengquan Zhang 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. but if 10x20 is too small for you, then you've eithe

xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community: I tried to find the xterm mailing list but seems we don't have this. since I am running sid I think it might be relevant I put in my .Xdefauts XTerm*font:10x20 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 av