Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 21:06:43 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Rem Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: configuring xterm Message-ID: <20050907180643.GA11881@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <431F2340.8020201@comcast.net> References: <431F2340.8020201@comcast.net>
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On 2005-09-07 10:28, Rem Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> wrote: > I am a new user, have FreeBSD 5.4 up and running, and am very grateful > to be rid of the blue screen of death. I'm going to have a bunch of > questions, but first things first: > > 1) When I start X three xterm windows appear. Can I configure it so > that only one appears? Yes, you can configure your X11 desktop to include a lot of interesting things. Terminals, a GUI desktop, custom backgrounds, editable menus, many virtual desktops or just one, etc. and so forth... I suggest you take a good look at the FreeBSD Handbook's chapter about X11, desktop environments, etc. It's going to be immensely useful, trust me :) > 2) The font size in the xterm window is quite small. How do I change > the font size? By setting the appropriate xterm ``resources'' in your ~/.Xresources file. I usually like having my own fonts in xterm, so mine includes: XTerm*font: apollo12 XTerm*font3: apollo XTerm*font4: apollo12 Replace the 'apollo*' fonts with other font names and there you are. A list of X11 fonts can be obtained with: $ xlsfonts once you are already in X11. Save this list to a file, by running: $ xlsfonts | tee fonts.txt Then, you can look at the fonts list even if you are not in X11.
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