Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:03:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Monitor Resolution Window and Font Size Message-ID: <19970926180323.34782@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970926002942.14484Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 12:30:47AM -0700 References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970925235843.14485A-100000@lessing.oit.umass.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970926002942.14484Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 12:30:47AM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > >> At the moment, I am writing out some very tiny words on the screen. If >> you run X-Windows at 1024x768, is there an easy way to get it to >> compensate and adjust fonts, windows and buttonbar to a reasonable >> size? > > Fonts: depends on program. Xterm's default font gets really tiny on > 1024x768, Well, this is a matter of opinion. I'm using the same fonts on a 1600x1200 screen, and they give me the luxury of two 120x85 xterms side by side. Luxury. Of course, it takes some getting used to :-) > you can fix this temporarily by holding down Cntl and holding the > right mouse button over the xterm window. I don't remember how to > make this permanent at the moment. You need to change your application defaults. In your Xdefaults file, put something like xterm*font: 9x15 You can find the name of the font (9x15 in this example, which corresponds to the default 'Large' font) in the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*/fonts.alias and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*/fonts.dir. To find out which you like, you can also start xterm with an explicit font: $ xterm -fn 9x15 All this is described in the xterm man page. Sorry, this isn't exactly a 'browse' interface. Greg
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