On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 04:52:54AM EST, Clive Standbridge wrote: > > Every time I launch X I open a couple of xterm windows but have to > > Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before > > it's usable to my old eyes. I'd like to automate that but have never > > figured out how. > > I've tried set-vt-font in .Xdefaults but that didn't help and don't > > see anything in the xterm man page that makes me think it would do > > the trick. > > Suggestions? > > Hi Mike, > > One way is to put a line like one of the following in ~/.Xresources > > *font: 6x13 > XTerm*font: 7x14 > > The latter affects just xterm, but the former affects anything that > uses a font resource (xterm, rxvt, emacs, etc.). > > You can test changes without restarting X by running > > xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
He probably wants: $ xrdb -load ~/.Xresources cj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

