SuSE Linux: All versions
The fonts displayed in an X application are too tiny or too large.
The default fonts of the X server or an X application offer a good readability under normal conditions (resolutions) such as
The contrary may also occur if high resolutions are not available and space has to be saved on the screen by using tiny fonts.
If changing the resolution is not possible, the relevant program must use a different font. Most X applications offer two possibilities to change the default font size:
Example xterm:
Keep the key Ctrl pressed while clicking with the right mouse button on the xterm window you want to resize and select, for example, huge or tiny. This setting does not affect other xterm windows and cannot be saved as default.
In this case there are different possibilities:
-fn 10x20
to xterm. + "XTerm" Exec xterm -ls
+ "XTerm" Exec xterm -ls -fn 10x20
in the file .fvwm2rc
If you use another window manager, you will have to change a different script accordingly.
xterm*font: 10x20
.Xresources
.Xresources
entry, for instance xman or
xedit:
xman*font: 10x20
Remarks:
xedit*font: 10x20
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/
xlsfonts
displays a list of the available fonts.
As in most shell commandos, you can view a short description of the options with: xlsfonts --help
SDB-mh_xfontsize
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