ATerminal fonts

Forum: DSL Tips and Tricks
Topic: ATerminal fonts
started by: cmk77

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Posted by cmk77 on Feb. 06 2006,08:22

My monitor is set to 1280x1024x24, which makes DSL look great, except for the font used in ATerminal, it's too small for my taste. Here's howto change it.

In the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonst.alias you'll find a list of font aliases including the default font "fixed" used in aterm. For example to test "10x20", click on ATerminal and type:

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aterm -fn 10x20 &

If you like what you see, open the file ~/.Xdefaults and modify it as follows

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aterm*font: 10x20

Beware not to add any blank characters at the end of the line, the font won't be recognized if you do.

If you find the color blue for listing directories to be too dark, add the line

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aterm*color12: DodgerBlue1

in ~/.Xdefaults

Restart the xsever (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and type startx) and click on ATerminal, it should now open with the new font and color.

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Posted by freeze on Feb. 07 2006,08:43

Do you know how to set the height and width to? That would be great. I altered several files but non of them worked...

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Posted by cmk77 on Feb. 07 2006,10:31

it would probably be something like

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aterm*geometry: 80x60

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Posted by freeze on Feb. 07 2006,21:27

YES!!! ist works  This is really "a big step for me" (not for mankind) if you know what i mean. I was searching a long time for the right file cause i thought somewhere there would be a line which says "height / width". And this did it. I love the shell and it was allways just to small for my taste...

Thanks again

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Posted by cmk77 on Feb. 08 2006,07:29

Glad you like it!

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