On Fri, Jan 07, 2011, James B. Byrne wrote:
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.
I have attempted to set the font size using xrdb and a custom .Xresources file. I can change the colour scheme. I can create a scrollbar. I can move the scrollbar to either the right or left window margin. What I cannot do is to change the font size.
An easier way to handle this is to create a $HOME/XTerm file which will be used each time an xterm is started. I'm including mine which sets a large font and several other options I like.
Bill