Re: Terminal problem? man formatting problem?

[Oliver Corff]

Thank you indeed!

Long bygone are the times when I still actively worked with the X Window
System and Athena Widgets.

The shift-+ had slipped by, I was so accustomed to use ctrl-+.

Branden had already told me to use -fn.

Thank you again,

Oliver.


On 24/04/2023 11:55, Frederic Chartier wrote:
> On 2023-04-24 03:49 +0200, Oliver Corff wrote:
>
> > I cannot use xterm, uxterm and Eterm on my system because of the high
> > screen resolution; those terminal windows appear as tiny stamps which do
> > not accept the Ctrl-+ resizing command.
> With XTerm, the font can be set in three ways that I know of.
> By setting the appropriate resource (perhaps "XTerm*vt100.font")
> in your ~/.Xresources, through option "-fn" and interactively,
> with [shift]-[-] and [shift]-[+]. If you know what font you
> want, a wrapper script can be as simple as
>
> #!/bin/sh
> : ${font:="-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-26-190-100-100-m-159-*"}
> exec xterm -fn "$font" "$@"
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Dr. Oliver Corff
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