How to set big font for xterm in cygwin/X

How to set big font for xterm in cygwin/X

[Zhengrong Zang]

Now I can use cygwin/X to run gtk3-demo, but my eyes is bad and xterm font in cygwin/X is very small, how can I set to bigger font for xterm? Thanks a lot.
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Re: How to set big font for xterm in cygwin/X

[Chris J. Breisch]

Zhengrong Zang wrote:
> Now I can use cygwin/X to run gtk3-demo, but my eyes is bad and xterm font in cygwin/X is very small, how can I set to bigger font for xterm? Thanks a lot.
>

I use the following in my ~/.Xdefaults. Change the faceName and faceSize 
to suit you.

XTerm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Serif Mono
XTerm*faceSize: 10
XTerm*toolBar: false
XTerm*Background: black
XTerm*Foreground: white
XTerm*cursorColor: LightBlue
XTerm*ScrollBar: true
XTerm*rightScrollBar: true


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Re: How to set big font for xterm in cygwin/X

[Zang Zhengrong]

On 2014/06/05, at 0:44, Chris J. Breisch <chris.ml@breisch.org> wrote:

> Zhengrong Zang wrote:
>> Now I can use cygwin/X to run gtk3-demo, but my eyes is bad and xterm font in cygwin/X is very small, how can I set to bigger font for xterm? Thanks a lot.
>> 
> 
> I use the following in my ~/.Xdefaults. Change the faceName and faceSize to suit you.
> 
> XTerm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Serif Mono
> XTerm*faceSize: 10
> XTerm*toolBar: false
> XTerm*Background: black
> XTerm*Foreground: white
> XTerm*cursorColor: LightBlue
> XTerm*ScrollBar: true
> XTerm*rightScrollBar: true
Thanks a lot, I got it.


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Re: How to set big font for xterm in cygwin/X

[tednolan]

In message <92C60106-8A54-434B-A470-744B8E4D420F@gmail.com>you write:
>Now I can use cygwin/X to run gtk3-demo, but my eyes is bad and xterm font =
>in cygwin/X is very small, how can I set to bigger font for xterm? Thanks a=
> lot.=
>

Well, if you hold down the ctrl key and hit the right mouse button,
you will get a menu of "VT Fonts" and select "Large" or "Huge".

Or you could do what I've done -- Make a "my_xterm" shell script:

##############################################

#!/bin/sh
#
export LANG=C
export XTERM_LOCALE=C

exec xterm \
        -fa lucidatypewriter -fs 16 \
        -fg green \
        -bg black $*

##############################################

I find the green on black much easier to read than other combinations.

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