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Posted: April 22 2006,12:21

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.

mikshaw

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Posted: April 22 2006,13:10

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

Code Sample

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>

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Posted: April 23 2006,00:39

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!

lovdsl

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Posted: April 23 2006,15:52

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.

mikshaw

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Posted: April 25 2006,20:49

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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