On Sunday 05 Mar 2017 19:52:18 Harry Putnam wrote: > Corbin Bird <corbinb...@charter.net> writes: > > Have you tried : xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1"? > > I mentioned that the -fa switch was not working at all. > > I've since discovered that the xterms I had were compiled with useflag > truetype disabled .. so `-truetype' Which meant xterm was compiled > without support for -fa > > > Note : that works on XTerm v325 ( tested ). > > I've recompiled xterm with useflag truetype enabled and now I have the > -fa flag so I can run the command you mentioned above now. > > That is a nice looking font... a little big on my view but > > I see something a bit off here... trying to get a smaller font of the > same type I went clear down to 4x6... but those all look just like > the "9x15B-ISO8859-1" > > xterm -fa 4x6-ISO8859-1 > > Does not say anything by way of error or explanation just shows a > terminal with the same font displayed as "9x15B-ISO8859-1" > > That can't be a desirable outcome. > > It must just be displaying the same size from 9x 8x 7x 6x 5x 4x. and > doing so silently.
Have you tried creating a ~/.Xresources file with something like: xterm*faceSize:12 xterm*faceSize1:6 xterm*faceSize2:8 xterm*faceSize3:10 xterm*faceSize4:12 xterm*faceSize5:14 xterm*faceSize6:16 This seems to work here, but I do not change font sizes in real time. -- Regards, Mick
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