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Re: default font size
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:55:37 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: default font size
- References: <20041216131435.00003ff5@titan>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Josef Dalcolmo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the default font size within the xterm, that comes up on the default installation of Cygwin is tiny. I would generally prefer a larger size. How do I increase the font size? (there is no XF86Config file any more).
select another font
xterm -fn 7x13 or xterm -fn 12x24
fontnames can be listed with xlsfonts
or xterm -fa "Courier" -fs 12
fontnames can be listed with fs-list
adding -dpi 100 to the XWin commandline may help too (and installing the xorg-x11-f100 package)
bye
ago
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