On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 06:21:39PM -0700, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> I'm trying to get set up on the Linux machine at the Philosophy
> Department. The Gnome terminal is just a tiny box with very small
> font. Zach Johnson set my Gnome terminal at home (on a LERT call) so
> that it was larger and had a nice sized font. How do I do this? None
> of the settings in the Gnome terminal itself allow these types of
> changes. Zach did something else. Can anybody explain what to do?
Right-click on gnome-terminal's window and you will get a menu that allows to
to set persistent settings (I think there is a 'save current settings'
button, that's the ticket for you). You can adjust the initial size of the
gnome-terminal using the --geometry switch when you start it (make a button
in the Gnome panel that invoked gnome-terminal with whatever switches
desired).
I recommend rxvt over gnome-terminal for its greater configurability--if you
are comfortable with X resources. Here are the rxvt-related extract from my
.Xdefault:
rxvt*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1
rxvt*foreground: white
rxvt*background: black
rxvt*color1: coral
rxvt*color4: #87CEFA
rxvt*color9: red
rxvt*color12: SkyBlue
rxvt*geometry: 140x64
rxvt*scrollBar: off
rxvt*saveLines: 512
rxvt*visualBell: on
rxvt*scrollTtyOutput: off
rxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: on
These set the font, choose more-legible colors, size it to fill my big
screen, etc. You might need to explicitly load the resources into your X
server using 'xrdb .Xdefault' in your .xinitrc.
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