At Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:23:40 +0000 (GMT) CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, James B. Byrne wrote:
>
> > To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> > From: James B. Byrne <byrnejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Set font and size in xterm
> >
> > I have a situation where gnome console does not handle vt102 escape
> > sequences properly and therefor need to employ xterm instead. When
> > I run xterm from a gnome terminal window I am presented with an
> > extremely small terminal window employing an almost unreadably small
> > font.
>
> Have you tried using konsole from KDE desktop packages?
>
> kdebase-3.5.4-21.el5.centos.1.i386 : K Desktop Environment
> - core files
> Repo : updates
> Matched from:
> Filename : /usr/bin/konsole
>
> That works well under most linux desktops.
>
> Keith
Or, you put the desired options for your XTerm in the X11 options
database using xrdb.
Create a .Xdefaults and arrange to load it during X session
startup (I have no clue if the GNome desktop system even looks for this
file). If GNome does not do this on itself, include a line like
xrdb .Xdefaults
in a script run at X session start up.
Into this file you will want something like:
XTerm*background: green
XTerm*foreground: black
XTerm*cursorColor: red
Xterm*VT100*geometry: 80x38
XTerm*scrollBar: true
XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-*-1
This is *my* setup: my xterms have a green background, with black text,
a red cursor, an VT100 geometry of 80x38 (characters), with a scrollbar,
and using the font specified by
'-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-*-1'.
More information:
man xrdb
man xterm
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