Thanks Mark, that worked like a charm (the xlsfonts that is: now I have something to choose from).
P.s Pete, to beat a dead horse, Mark's reply showed up in the other email list (that I crossed posted to), but not on vox-tech Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark K. Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "vox-tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] HP & xterm > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Jay Strauss wrote: > > > How do/can I control the size of the font in my xterm window. > > Ctrl-<right_mouse_button>, as it is in most XTerm. You'll see the fonts > menu pop up, but not all fonts may work (see below.) > > > Moreover, is > > this a function of xterm or a function of my x server (my guess its a > > function of xterm). > > I think you're right. However, the fonts themselves come from X so the > fonts should be installed in X. If XTerm is set to use a certain set of > fonts but your X server can't use them, then XTerm can't use those fonts. > > There's a way (in X protocol; I'm not sure if Exceed supports it) to > connect to a remote machine's font server. See you can setup Exceed to > connect to your remote machine's font server, and make sure the remote > machine is setup to share the font service. I've never setup a system > like this before so I don't know the steps to getting this setup working, > though. > > > When I man xterm I see there is a > > '-fn' where I can set the font (What values can I set this to??) but I don't > > see anything like font size. > > Try typing `xlsfonts` on the remote machine. You can use any fonts > listed. I like the simple monospace fonts, especially "10x20". > Variable-space fonts won't work very well. Example: > > xterm -fn 10x20 > > -Mark > > -- > Mark K. Kim > http://www.cbreak.org/mark/ > PGP key available upon request. > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
