On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Frank Cox <theatre at 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. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net