How to increase the font size ?

[Sailesh Patel]

On a workstation,hp 11.00, on command line, the font
size is very small--- Is there way to increase the font
size --- If yes ? How to achieve that.

Thanks.

Sailesh.

[Atif Malik_2]

You can change the font size by modifying .Xdefaults file in your $HOME
directory. If the file doesn't exist, you can create it and add the following
lines to the file:

XTerm*Font: 7x14
XTerm*boldFont: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal---120-75-75-c-90-iso8859-1
XTerm*initialFont: medium
Hp*Font: 7x14

Everytime you open a new window, it'll have the font specified in .Xdefaults
file.

To obtain list of fonts:

/usr/bin/X11/xlsfonts

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You can also change the font size by doing the following:

1. Click the Style Manager Font control
2. Select a font size.
3. Click OK.

Window labels and text show the new font size as applications are started.

-Atif

[Sailesh Patel]

Hi Atif,
My question is related to command line mode, as we do not have multiple
windows there. For example when on Windows NT from command prompt (ie DOS
prompt to be more specific), we can change the font size from its properties --
so like that is there a place where i change the size of the fonts, so that
when i log into the console in command line mode, the fonts are big.

I tried your tips, since the .Xdefault file was not there i created it. I tried
to run the sh but it was referring the other shells which it could not find.

Appreciate your reply and wish if you could help more on this with the
situation in which i am.

Thanks.