font size

\_ SMTP quoth daz@undertaker.homeip.net on 9/13/2002 19:51 as having spake thusly:
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\_ On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, molossermom wrote:
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\_ > help ! i can only work on my linux machine for about an hour before i go blind looking at the tiny font size. i tried changing it in my nautilus preferences but it only changed it for the icons not globally.
\_ > i especially need to be able to change it in the terminal emulation program.
\_ > thanks
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\_ if you are using gnome: start here icon->desktop preferences->font
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\_ for kde: open kcontrol->Look & Feel->Fonts
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\_ for gnome-terminal: edit->current profile
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\_ not sure how in other term programs.

The 'typical' X way is '-fn <font>' on the command line. You can get
a list of fonts via 'xlsfonts', but that's not really palatible unless
you know what the pieces mean. :-) Try 'xfontsel' instead.

Another solution is to use the xresource database and stuff values in
it ala:

echo "emacs*font: fixed" | xrdb -merge

or

putting the above quoted line in ~/.Xdefaults

YMMV.

David