At Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:23:40 +0000 (GMT) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: > > > To: centos at centos.org > > From: James B. Byrne <byrnejb at 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Websites: > http://www.karsites.net > http://www.php-debuggers.net > http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk > > All email addresses are challenge-response protected with > TMDA [http://tmda.net] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments