On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 19:07, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.06.24 at 15:51, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas@tiscali.es) [030624 15:36]:
Is it possible to start an xterm with a parameter on the command line producing the same effect as the menu selection "VT Fonts: Huge"?
And if there is another to give a certain size and possition, better still ;-)
The Xresources xterm*Geometry: and xterm*font: or the corresponding command line options if your don't want to mess with Xresources.
Xresources wouldn't work, as I need different xterms of different sizes. As for the command line, that is what I'm looking for, and not finding O:-)
It could be a -f?? something, but it seems to be expecting a font name, and I only want to specify that the size I want is Huge. There is a "-fs size", but it wants size in points for truetype fonts... and it doesn't work, "xterm -fs 24" does nothing different than "xterm -fs 12"
As for geometry, it seems to be:
-geometry geometry This option specifies the preferred size and posi tion of the VT102 window; see X(7).
and sends me to "man X", where I get lost again... Ah! found it: "-geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT+XOFF+YOFF", where width and height are in chars. And that one works.
Well, something solved. I still need the standard font size set to huge, normal, unreadable, etc... Carlos,
You are going to have to specify the font using the -fn option. The
"Huge" font is normally the font 10x20. The follwing command will list
the "VT fonts" on your system.
xlsfonts | grep ^[1-9].*
You will have to play with it until you get the right one. Another
example is the "Large" font is 9x15.
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Paul Varner