[Pan-users] Re: VDQ : xterm font size -- aaarrrgghhh ...

[Greg Lee]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:40:53 +0000, Beartooth wrote:

>       The only problem, which I'm trying to deal with at last, is that
> the native xterm default settings (in Fedora on all my machines, at
> least) make it tiny and its font illegibly so; ...

I have a Fedora 6 installation here, and I did at one time spend some
time setting up xterm.  I don't use it now, and what I did is now sort
of foggy, but I'll put some notes here that might possibly be helpful.
I use the "uxterm" variant to get unicode fonts, and when I want an
xterm console, I call (from my ~/Desktop/xterm.desktop file):
   uxterm -fa "Courier New" -fb "Courier New:style=Bold" -bg white

However, this particular font is not unicode -- I think I couldn't find
a unicode font that pleased me.

Various xterm defaults are controlled by a file UXTerm in the directory
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults (which includes other initialization
files).  I see that in my version of this file, I've made the substitution
of the second line below for the first line:

!*VT100.font:   -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
*VT100.font:    -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1

... so this is one way of getting a larger font size.

My version of xterm is xterm-225, and I saved the options I used when
I configured it, so I may as well give you those:
./configure   \
  --prefix=/usr  \
  --libdir=/usr/lib64  \
  --with-app-defaults=/usr/share/X11  \
  --with-Xaw3d  \
  --enable-256-color  \
  --enable-88-color  \
  --enable-exec-xterm  \
  --enable-hp-fkeys  \
  --disable-sun-fkeys  \
  --enable-load-vt-fonts  \
  --enable-paste64  \
  --enable-readline-mouse  \
  --enable-tcap-fkeys  \
  --enable-tcap-query  \
  --enable-toolbar  \
  --enable-mini-luit  \
  --enable-luit  \
  --enable-wide-chars  \
  --enable-dabbrev  \
  --enable-rectangles


-- 
Greg