favorite xterm fonts/settings?

thetza · Post by **thetza** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:16 am

What font, font size, colors do you use for your terminal emulators? I've been looking for a good combination which gets me 100+ columns and ~50 rows on a 19" monitor for my bad eyesight... suggestions?

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:11 am

I use monospace-regular-9 in a light grey colour (with a dark transparent background).

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:12 pm

Call me retarded, but how do you change the colors for Xterm? I normally just use Konsole, or GNOME Terminal, which allow you to change settings via the menu.

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:27 pm

You set colours, fonts, and such in XTERM with the command line... example: xterm -fa (fontname)

Reading the Man page for XTERM should help.

thetza · Post by **thetza** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:18 pm

Wally Balljacker wrote:Call me retarded, but how do you change the colors for Xterm? I normally just use Konsole, or GNOME Terminal, which allow you to change settings via the menu.

I usually just set them in .Xdefaults. Take a look at the resources section on the man page.

Judland wrote:I use monospace-regular-9 in a light grey colour (with a dark transparent background).

ouch, you must have some eagle-like eyes

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:35 pm

thetza wrote:ouch, you must have some eagle-like eyes

Not too bad on my 1024 x 768 resolution desktop.