On Fri, January 7, 2011 15:00, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: >>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. > I copied your file into my home directory as ~/XTerm and took a look at its contents. As far as I can see you did not intend for me to make any alterations to it to begin with. With this file in place and ~/.Xresources renamed to ~/Xresources.test I started xterm from a gnome terminal. There were several changes in behaviour, so I infer that the file is recognized and loaded by xterm. However, the font size remains unchanged. I suspect that there is something wrong with the xfont configuation on this system since xfontsel can only see four fonts and there are literally dozens available. Since xterm apparently only knows about four fonts then it cannot be altered to use any other. How do I get xterm to recognize the availability of these additional fonts? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3