Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:00:59PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: >> The xterm fonts are nice, but too small. I can use xfontsel to browse >> fonts, but I can't seem to find the one xterm is using (so that I >> might make it bigger). Is there a way to tell what font my xterm is >> using?
> Note that recent xterms can also use antialiased TrueType fonts, which "recent", since: Patch #156 - 2001/4/28 - XFree86 4.0.3 Patch #151 - 2001/3/10 - XFree86 4.0.2 Patch #148 - 2000/10/31 - XFree86 4.0.1d http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html > look much better IMO. But the option syntax is completely different: > For example: > XTerm*faceName: bitstream vera sans mono > XTerm*faceSize: 14 > XTerm*faceSize1: 8 > XTerm*faceSize2: 9 > XTerm*faceSize3: 10 > XTerm*faceSize4: 12 > XTerm*faceSize5: 16 > XTerm*faceSize6: 20 btw, If the face-sizes aren't specified, they're computed based on the bitmap font-sizes... > (I use a big monitor, and I have aging eyes, so I like bigger fonts ...) I usually use the largest bitmap fonts - the TrueType fonts have generally poor coverage of Unicode. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
