On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:08:40PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Dave Feustel wrote: > > I would like to have xterm use a bold (and possibly slightly larger) > > font to make it easier for me to read. > > > > How do I change the default font used by xterm. > > > > Thanks. > > > Are you actually using xterm, or are you using something like > gnome-terminal or the KDE equivalent? The way you change it is > different depending on the program used. I'm really running xterm. It works best for me. > If you are really trying to set xterm, you can use the "-fn font" > option to set the normal font. There are a lot more options that can > be set in the xterm resource file. It may be worth while learning > about resource files if you are not going to use a desktop manager, > or programs that are not desktop manager aware, and want to > customize the appearance. You can also change some of the settings > for the current secession using ctrl-<mouse button> to see how they > will look before making permanent changes. The <control-mouse click> is exactly what I want since my abilty to read fonts changes a lot during the day, apparently depending upon what I've eaten. So sometimes I can read quite small fonts and then later, I cannot make out the default font. Thanks Very Much for the tip! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
