On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:15:16PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > > 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
That's a good way to put it... :-) > 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 These are tiny on my screen :-| > 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. Wow - nearly perfect! Can that be boldfaced (darkened a bit) by default? > 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 & This size works for me with rxvt, which has the advantage of running from a cygwin console window without first starting X. > If you like that, you might like to copy the rest of my setup, too. > In my ~/.Xdefaults file: -- snip -- Thank you, thank you! I will read and test these with great interest. Tom -- Tom Baker <tba...@tbaker.de>
