From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 6 18:34:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA23491 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:34:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23485 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:34:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA02714; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:34:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:34:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Ken ASKME cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions In-Reply-To: <19980901144849.21771.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Ken ASKME wrote: > How do I select a large font to use in xterm and rxvt windows? I'm > running at 1024x768 and the type is too small. On xterm, hold down control and the right mouse botton over a window .. you'll get a menu of fonts. For rxvt and xterm you can set a resource, which one should be on the manpage. > Also Is it possible to force a xterm session to pad a '&' so all > commands typed in it are run via background? Not that I know of, although you might teach your shell to do this. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message