At Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:23:40 +0000 (GMT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, James B. Byrne wrote:
To: centos@centos.org From: James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Subject: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm
I have a situation where gnome console does not handle vt102 escape sequences properly and therefor need to employ xterm instead. When I run xterm from a gnome terminal window I am presented with an extremely small terminal window employing an almost unreadably small font.
Have you tried using konsole from KDE desktop packages?
kdebase-3.5.4-21.el5.centos.1.i386 : K Desktop Environment
- core files
Repo : updates Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/konsole
That works well under most linux desktops.
Keith
Or, you put the desired options for your XTerm in the X11 options database using xrdb.
Create a .Xdefaults and arrange to load it during X session startup (I have no clue if the GNome desktop system even looks for this file). If GNome does not do this on itself, include a line like
xrdb .Xdefaults
in a script run at X session start up.
Into this file you will want something like:
XTerm*background: green XTerm*foreground: black XTerm*cursorColor: red Xterm*VT100*geometry: 80x38 XTerm*scrollBar: true XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-*-1
This is *my* setup: my xterms have a green background, with black text, a red cursor, an VT100 geometry of 80x38 (characters), with a scrollbar, and using the font specified by '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-*-1'.
More information:
man xrdb man xterm
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