On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:14:41PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > I'm probably older than most people on this list,
You're not the only old-timer; though I don't like to think of myself as old, I've been programming computers since 1983, and working with them professionally since about 1994. There are a number of other regulars on the list who are old-timers as well. > > and I was never able to reproduce the nice, large, readable > > interface of a Windows console window with 10x18 Raster fonts in a > > 120x45 window, black letters on grey, in any xterm window, though > > I'm sure it could be done if I had fiddled long enough with the > > settings. It's actually not even that hard... though you do need to read the man page, and that can be a daunting task. Xterm is very flexible. ;-) As it happens, I use almost exaclty the set-up you describe, though I usually prefer the 7x14 font normally (although recently I use the 7x13 font, because there's a version of that font that contains the vast majority of Unicode characters, and I often communicate with people who use Asian languages). One of my alternate fonts will probably suit your taste, if you like the 10x18 font. > If the font is named 10x18, then: > > xterm -font "10x18" -fg black -bg grey -geometry 120x45 & > > I don't have a 10x18, but I have a 10x20, and substituting that > in worked. Darn, you beat me to it. 10x20 is a font alias rather than an actual font name (font names are really esoteric in X), and actually -fn works on xterm too (-font is an alias). The 10x20 font will actually quite closely resemble the Windows 10x18 console font. I don't really like to use the -fg and -bg options, because they color *everything*, and that's not really what I want. For purposes of trying it out, I'd suggest this command line: xterm -fn 10x20 -xrm "XTerm.vt100.background: #A8A8AA" -xrm \ "XTerm.vt100.foreground: black" -geom 120x45 & If you like that, you might like to copy the rest of my setup, too. In my ~/.Xdefaults file: XTerm.termName: xterm XTerm*scrollBar: true XTerm*saveLines: 3000 XTerm*loginShell: true XTerm*trimSelection: true XTerm.vt100.background: #A8A8AA XTerm.vt100.foreground: black XTerm.vt100.titeInhibit: true ! terminal colors 0-15 XTerm.vt100.color0: black XTerm.vt100.color1: #900000 XTerm.vt100.color2: #006000 XTerm.vt100.color3: #E0E000 XTerm.vt100.color4: DarkBlue XTerm.vt100.color5: #700070 XTerm.vt100.color6: #005060 XTerm.vt100.color7: lightgrey XTerm.vt100.color8: #505050 XTerm.vt100.color9: #C00000 XTerm.vt100.color10: #00FF00 XTerm.vt100.color11: #FFFF00 XTerm.vt100.color12: DarkBlue XTerm.vt100.color13: #A000A0 XTerm.vt100.color14: #00FFFF XTerm.vt100.color15: #FFFFFF XTerm*cursorColor: Green XTerm*colorBD: Blue XTerm*colorUL: Green XTerm*colorBDMode: True XTerm*colorULMode: True XTerm*VT100*underLine: true XTerm*charClass: 33:48,37:48,45-47:48,38:48 XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* XTerm*font1: nil2 XTerm*font2: 5x7 XTerm*font3: 7x14 XTerm*font4: -schumacher-*-medium-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-c-*-*-* XTerm*font5: -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1 XTerm*font6: -misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* Except that you'd want to substitute the following for the one above: XTerm*font: 10x20 Briefly, these settings turn on color underline and bold modes, modify the default characters that are auto-highlighted when you double click on a word, set up a series of alternate fonts of varying sizes (accessible via the ctrl-right-click menu), and set up the terminal character colors so that they are all (usually) reasonably readable against my background color. All of the resources above are described in detail in the xterm man page, if you're not clear on what they do. If you just put the above in your .Xdefaults (or .Xresources) file in your home directory, they should be loaded by the X server when it starts and all your xterms will start with those options. You can either restart X or run the following to make the settings effective for any xterm started subsequently: xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults Hope that helps. The RGB color values are obviously tuned for my display, and you might have to tinker with them (or your monitor's color settings) to get results that suit you. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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