CDE: How to change font size in dtpad

[Graham Cameron_1]

Any one know how to change the font size of a dtpad window ?

Can't find anything on the man pages or the HP forums

dtterm -fn does it for dtterms, but
dtpad -fn ignores it.

Graham

[Alex Glennie]

I suspect dtpad is usning the Resource manager settings in which case you'd need to go to the Style manager-> fonts and set from here ..nope tried that and it didn't work but ...

Can the default font for dtpad be changed?

From the command line, a user could execute the follow:

/usr/dt/bin/dtpad -standAlone -xrm '*DtEditor*textFontList: user6x13'

Other fonts the user can choose from are found in the following directories:

/usr/lib/X11/fonts/hp_roman8/75dpi
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc

To permanently alter the font used by dtpad place the following resource in $HOME/Dtpad (for an
individual user) or in /etc/dt/app-defaults/C/Dtpad (for a system-wide change)

Dtpad*standAlone: True
Dtpad*textFontList font name

NB you may find you need to employ both methods togehter .....

[Stefan Saliba]

Have you tried using the -standAlone option. This allows the creation of a seperate stand alone dtpad process where any of the standard resources such as fontlist or color can be loaded according to the environment on the requestor's host

good luck

[Graham Cameron_1]

Thanks Alex.
The command line option works a treat.
Couldn't get the 'permanent' solution to work, but who cares, I can live with that !

Thanks again

Graham

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

Don't say I can't take a hint ...

Try adding the following in

$HOME/.Xdefaults
Dtpad*standAlone: True
Dtpad*textFontList: fixed or whatever ?

any better ?

[Graham Cameron_1]

I have to admire your persistence!
And you are right - that did it.
10 points coming your way.

till the next time.
- Graham