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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:03:28 -0500
From:      Ed Budd <ebudd@grokking.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xterm
Message-ID:  <20040305170328.314ca322.ebudd@grokking.org>
In-Reply-To: <Sea1-F44SaGi4hZszqB0002dd12@hotmail.com>
References:  <Sea1-F44SaGi4hZszqB0002dd12@hotmail.com>

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On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:42:26 -0500
"Gerald S. Stoller" <gs_stoller@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 	I use  xterm  a lot and I always set the font size to
> tiny  which requires (to my current knowledge) an additional
> action (this action is particularly reprehensible to me because
> it requires that I use both hands, one on the mouse and one on
> the keyboard) after the window is opened.  Is there anyway I
> can specify this along with the  xterm  invocation, say by
> setting an environment variable appropriately?
> 
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Hi,

You can add the fontsize as a parameter when you invoke it, like this:

xterm -fn <fontsize>

I use 'xterm -fn 9x15' on a high res monitor and set it (along with some
other params) in my window manager (blackbox) menu config.

EB




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