font size

david and bob;

i tried the below solutions to no avail.
the closest i got to success was using the xfontsel
i chose the font and size then chose select then closed the box and
restarted and it did not change.
next time i chose the font and size then chose select then chose quit and it
did not change
:(
maybe i'll just wait til i get my rh bible from the library this week. i am
getting frustrated with this system.
and i still don't know how to get something off my floppy (ie. drivers) and
into a program, or find the program , sigh, i'll keep trying one hour at a
time and hopefully know more by next week.
thanks for everyone's help, i 'm thinking, since it must be able to be done,
that i just don't know enough yet to figure it out. but it certainly is
frustrating.
remind me why this is worth the effort again..
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David A. Sinck" <plug-discuss@grueslayer.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: font size


>
>
> \_ SMTP quoth daz@undertaker.homeip.net on 9/13/2002 19:51 as having spake
thusly:
> \_
> \_ On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, molossermom wrote:
> \_
> \_ > 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
> \_
> \_ if you are using gnome: start here icon->desktop preferences->font
> \_
> \_ for kde: open kcontrol->Look & Feel->Fonts
> \_
> \_ for gnome-terminal: edit->current profile
> \_
> \_ 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
>
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