User Feedback :: Changing text size in ATerminal

Well some of us learning DSL are not so young (I'm 68 and counting) and the text size on the ATerminal application is just too small. I have been unable to find an answer about how to increase the size of the text.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance.

Open /home/dsl/.Xdefaults
There you will encounter a line that looks like this:

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aterm*font: fixed

change "fixed" to something else (something bigger!). You can get a list of available fonts with the command xlsfonts|less, or you can look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*/fonts.alias.

If you want to keep the same "fixed" font, you might try aterm*font: 7x14 or aterm*font: 8x16 or even aterm*font: 10x20

You can test without editing .Xdefaults by starting aterm with aterm -fn <fontname>

Thanks for the post. I tried the command "aterm*font: 8x16" but it didn't take until I entered it without the space after the colon(:). I now have larger type for my old eyes!

Thanks mikshaw, one for the archive. I will add part to the post for green. hope you do not mind. many of my newbie questions were answered by you in the forum. His thanks I give to you and all who respond to my posts. hope your eyes aren't bleeding. The dict is much better with a larger font.

An easier way to pick a font is with the xfontsel command. This is a gui application that gives you a preview of each font on your system, in all of its various forms. I thought it had been removed from DSL, so i suggested xlsfonts instead.

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