How to change xterm font ?

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Fri Feb 25 13:44:00 UTC 2005


On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:33:12AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> 
> 
>            *I've recently been afflicted with a vision problem and need
>            to change the xterm font for improved visibility.
> 
>            CTRL-Right click permits selection of "Huge" which is almost
>            enough improvement but a bold font, perhaps MS Comic would
>            be a lot better than the regular font displayed with FC-2.
> 
>            It appears from "man xterm" that xterm -fs "fontname" should
>            do it but that hasn't worked? I may be doing something wrong
>            there? I normally use xfce if that has any effect, but Gnome
>            is available  .
>             
>            Any suggestion appreciated.
> 
>            Thank you.
> 
>            Bob Goodwin    Zuni, Virginia
>            *

The option is "-fn". So, e.g.:

xterm -fn 10x20 &


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