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Yonatan
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 Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject: Changing font of terminal in XFCE |
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| Can anyone suggest how to change to font in the terminal used by XFCE (e.g. right click, terminal)? The font is very small...but it the terminal doesn't have any menus like the terminals used by GNOME or KDE that would allow me to change the font. |
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jamesdick628
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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The Terminal menu item in xfce4 runs the command xfterm4. If you look at it (with your favorite text editor of course) it's just a shell script that launches one of several terminals, such as xterm. I'm not really sure what the point of this is but that's what it does. If you're using xterm, or aterm, or whatever, you can use ~/.Xdefaults to set the font and various other options. Here's my .Xdefaults file
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XTerm*jumpScroll: true
XTerm*multiScroll: true
XTerm*colorBD: white
XTerm*underLine: true
XTerm*colorUL: #1FA638
XTerm*colorULMode: true
XTerm*highlightColor: LightSkyBlue
XTerm*scrollBar: false
XTerm*rightScrollBar: true
XTerm*loginShell: true
XTerm*saveLines: 15000
XTerm*locale: true
XTerm*font: -*-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
XTerm*foreground: white
XTerm*background: black
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I'm pretty sure I was lazy and just stole it from another post, but that gives you some of the basics. I changed the font to bitstream vera sans mono. You can change it to whatever you like. Try reading the man page for whatever terminal you are using to see what other options there are. |
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Yonatan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks for the tip! |
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