On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:15:44 -0300 Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
How about running your app under 'screen', then fire up a second gnome-terminal and attach to it with 'screen -x'. Zoom in as desired with regular control-+ sequences. Then minimize and keep it lurking.
Now that's clever!
Unfortunately, the folks using the programs tend to keep 4 or 5 instances of it open on each of their desktops
Xterm ctrl-right-button menu lets you choose from among 7 different font sizes, which can be assigned using X resources. If they could be trained to hit ctrl-right-button and select "Huge", the problem devolves to one of finding the right font to assign to the resource. Not quite as easy as clicking the maximize button, but close.
shift-keypad-plus and shift-keypad-minus are easier to use.
But the request was for something that would retain the same screen dimensions while changing the lines/columns. xterm doesn't do that, except when it's constrained by being maximized.