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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
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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