Re: can I change the font of default xterm?
yes. actually what I meant to ask was the fonts for the terminals when you press alt+f1,f2 etc.. From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], john smith [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: can I change the font of default xterm? Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:49:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [150.252.135.30] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBABF99EB000FD82197DD96FC871E89710; Thu Apr 13 15:49:19 2000 Received: from mail.acu.edu ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [150.252.128.51])by nicanor.acu.edu (2.1.2/8.9.1/Execmail 2.1) with ESMTP id RAA06107;Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:47:28 -0500 (CDT) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 13 15:50:35 2000 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.71 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: Kent == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John wrote: I'd like to know if I can change the font of xterm. xterm is the default pty terminal on the initial boot right? or am I mistaken? I would like to use my ttf font for the default terminal (whichever it boots into before the xdm login prompt) since I have configured xfstt font server properly.is this possible? Thanks. Kent answered: You use the term xterm, which is a terminal for X, but you describe a console terminal. Assuming you mean the console, and not an X terminal, you might try installing fonter, which is a point-and-click font selector thingie. There are other ways to do it, but that might get you started. Then John wrote: thanks. mind telling me the other ways that you have said before?. I tried fontser but I don't like the way how it handles things. And Kent answered: To be honest, I don't remember. I know that when I first started out with Linux I found some text file somewhere that allowed me to change the console fonts, but now in response to your question I've done a little bit of looking around and don't see what I remember seeing before, so it may be that things have changed since then. Then Marshal added: I believe that editing .Xresources will allow you to change the fonts of various Xclients. I know it does for emacs anyways. There was a thread earlier about changing fonts for netscape. 2bits. Marshal And Kent's reply: I could be mistaken, but I believe the title of this thread is misleading. I think John means the console font, not an xterm font. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: can I change the font of default xterm?
I think you might try looking at console-tools or kbd packages. You probably won't be able to use TrueType fonts though, but I don't know for sure. You might also look into the SVGAtextmode (or something like that) package. g'Luck! Marshal john == john smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes. actually what I meant to ask was the fonts for the terminals when you press alt+f1,f2 etc.. From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], john smith [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: can I change the font of default xterm? Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:49:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [150.252.135.30] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBABF99EB000FD82197DD96FC871E89710; Thu Apr 13 15:49:19 2000 Received: from mail.acu.edu ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [150.252.128.51])by nicanor.acu.edu (2.1.2/8.9.1/Execmail 2.1) with ESMTP id RAA06107;Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:47:28 -0500 (CDT) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 13 15:50:35 2000 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.71 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: Kent == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John wrote: I'd like to know if I can change the font of xterm. xterm is the default pty terminal on the initial boot right? or am I mistaken? I would like to use my ttf font for the default terminal (whichever it boots into before the xdm login prompt) since I have configured xfstt font server properly.is this possible? Thanks. Kent answered: You use the term xterm, which is a terminal for X, but you describe a console terminal. Assuming you mean the console, and not an X terminal, you might try installing fonter, which is a point-and-click font selector thingie. There are other ways to do it, but that might get you started. Then John wrote: thanks. mind telling me the other ways that you have said before?. I tried fontser but I don't like the way how it handles things. And Kent answered: To be honest, I don't remember. I know that when I first started out with Linux I found some text file somewhere that allowed me to change the console fonts, but now in response to your question I've done a little bit of looking around and don't see what I remember seeing before, so it may be that things have changed since then. Then Marshal added: I believe that editing .Xresources will allow you to change the fonts of various Xclients. I know it does for emacs anyways. There was a thread earlier about changing fonts for netscape.2bits.Marshal And Kent's reply: I could be mistaken, but I believe the title of this thread is misleading. I think John means the console font, not an xterm font. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: can I change the font of default xterm?
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 11:27:39PM +, john smith wrote: yes. actually what I meant to ask was the fonts for the terminals when you press alt+f1,f2 etc.. First of all, you can't change it to a true type font as far as I know. *But* you can make it much nicer. The way I did it involves some kernel configuring, and it might also not work on all systems. So if you try it, make sure that you have a backup kernel image to boot into. So, now that the formalities are over, here's how you do it. 1) You go into your kernel source tree and make menuconfig (or xconfig) 2) Turn on the experimental stuff in Code Level Maturity Options. 3) Go to Console Drivers. 4) Select VGA text console and video mode selection support. 5) Go to Frame buffer support and turn on frame buffer devices 6) Select the video card that you have, or if it's not listed VESA VGA graphics console. Resist the temptation to use modules. They don't work. 7) Turn on Advanced low level driver options, and select everything from mono to 32 bpp 8) Turn on Select compiled in fonts. (This is the fun part) 9) I really like the Sparc console 12x22 font, and it's the only one that I selected. It seems to me that it has to be the only one that you select for you to use it. 10) That's it with kernel configuration. Now compile the newly configured kernel. Make sure that you don't overwrite your last one, you'll want it if things go wrong. 11) I added the line append=video=atyfb:1024x768-60,font:SUN12x22 to my /etc/lilo.conf for the part which contained the new kernel. This depends on which card you chose when configuring. 12) When the kernel's done compiling, run lilo. 13) Reboot. If things went well, you should now have a really nice font to look at. If the only problem is that your resolution is now out of whack, you can use the fbset utility to fix it. The command line that I use is fbset 1024x768-60. 14) Salt to taste. Good luck, Chris Gray -- pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.
Re: can I change the font of default xterm?
Kent == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: john smith wrote: thanks. mind telling me the other ways that you have said before?. I tried fontser but I don't like the way how it handles things. From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: john smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: can I change the font of default xterm? Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:52:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [150.252.135.30] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBABC871600BFD82197AE96FC871ECFD00; Tue Apr 11 07:52:08 2000 Received: from mail.acu.edu ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [150.252.128.51])by nicanor.acu.edu (2.1.2/8.9.1/Execmail 2.1) with ESMTP id JAA22761;Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:50:19 -0500 (CDT) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 11 07:52:27 2000 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.71 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] john smith wrote: I'd like to know if I can change the font of xterm. xterm is the default pty terminal on the initial boot right? or am I mistaken? I would like to use my ttf font for the default terminal (whichever it boots into before the xdm login prompt) since I have configured xfstt font server properly.is this possible? Thanks. You use the term xterm, which is a terminal for X, but you describe a console terminal. Assuming you mean the console, and not an X terminal, you might try installing fonter, which is a point-and-click font selector thingie. There are other ways to do it, but that might get you started. To be honest, I don't remember. I know that when I first started out with Linux I found some text file somewhere that allowed me to change the console fonts, but now in response to your question I've done a little bit of looking around and don't see what I remember seeing before, so it may be that things have changed since then. I believe that editing .Xresources will allow you to change the fonts of various Xclients. I know it does for emacs anyways. There was a thread earlier about changing fonts for netscape. 2bits. Marshal Since I don't remember how to do it, I'm CCing this to the Debian list so maybe someone else can provide an answer. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: can I change the font of default xterm?
Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: Kent == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John wrote: I'd like to know if I can change the font of xterm. xterm is the default pty terminal on the initial boot right? or am I mistaken? I would like to use my ttf font for the default terminal (whichever it boots into before the xdm login prompt) since I have configured xfstt font server properly.is this possible? Thanks. Kent answered: You use the term xterm, which is a terminal for X, but you describe a console terminal. Assuming you mean the console, and not an X terminal, you might try installing fonter, which is a point-and-click font selector thingie. There are other ways to do it, but that might get you started. Then John wrote: thanks. mind telling me the other ways that you have said before?. I tried fontser but I don't like the way how it handles things. And Kent answered: To be honest, I don't remember. I know that when I first started out with Linux I found some text file somewhere that allowed me to change the console fonts, but now in response to your question I've done a little bit of looking around and don't see what I remember seeing before, so it may be that things have changed since then. Then Marshal added: I believe that editing .Xresources will allow you to change the fonts of various Xclients. I know it does for emacs anyways. There was a thread earlier about changing fonts for netscape. 2bits. Marshal And Kent's reply: I could be mistaken, but I believe the title of this thread is misleading. I think John means the console font, not an xterm font.
can I change the font of default xterm?
I'd like to know if I can change the font of xterm. xterm is the default pty terminal on the initial boot right? or am I mistaken? I would like to use my ttf font for the default terminal (whichever it boots into before the xdm login prompt) since I have configured xfstt font server properly.is this possible? Thanks. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: can I change the font of default xterm?
I'd like to know if I can change the font of xterm. you have to edit your ~/.Xdefaults. add something like XTerm*Font: blabla you can pass it a command line option, too. xterm is the default pty terminal on the initial boot right? or am I mistaken? -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
Re: can I change the font of default xterm?
john smith wrote: I'd like to know if I can change the font of xterm. xterm is the default pty terminal on the initial boot right? or am I mistaken? I would like to use my ttf font for the default terminal (whichever it boots into before the xdm login prompt) since I have configured xfstt font server properly.is this possible? Thanks. You use the term xterm, which is a terminal for X, but you describe a console terminal. Assuming you mean the console, and not an X terminal, you might try installing fonter, which is a point-and-click font selector thingie. There are other ways to do it, but that might get you started.
Re: default xterm
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Serge Delorme wrote: I'm using debian 1.3.1 and I want to change the default font size of xterm but I can't find which file to edit. I have look in /etc/Xresources, Xsession and the light did not came on. What is it? The resource is XTerm*VT100*font and you might want to set it in /etc/X11/Xresources or $HOME/.Xresources , like this: XTerm*VT100*font: 8x16 If you use *VT100*font as the resource name, many more applications start using this font as teir default. *font alone will probably mess up a whole lot of applications. :-) You may want to set it in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color The resource would be set system wide. see you, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp-key (during normal european business time hours) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: default xterm
Jens Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You may want to set it in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color These will get overwritten when you upgrade xbase. On a Debian system, global customisation should go in /etc/X11/Xresources. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
default xterm
I'm using debian 1.3.1 and I want to change the default font size of xterm but I can't find which file to edit. I have look in /etc/Xresources, Xsession and the light did not came on. What is it? I'm using afterstep if that is of interest. -- -- Serge Delorme ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berthierville, Quebec Canada ABUSUS NON TOLLIT USUM -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: default xterm
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Serge Delorme wrote: I'm using debian 1.3.1 and I want to change the default font size of xterm but I can't find which file to edit. I have look in /etc/Xresources, Xsession and the light did not came on. What is it? The resource is XTerm*VT100*font and you might want to set it in /etc/X11/Xresources or $HOME/.Xresources , like this: XTerm*VT100*font: 8x16 If you use *VT100*font as the resource name, many more applications start using this font as teir default. *font alone will probably mess up a whole lot of applications. :-) I'm using afterstep if that is of interest. No, that is not important. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
