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TheGeeko61
Asked: 2011-12-18 14:48:41 +0800 CST

What values are available for fn and fb options to the xterm command?

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I am visually impaired and have difficulty with the current settings (9x15 and 9x15bold) which my script is specifying. I would like to enlarge the fonts; how do I determine which values are possible for the fn and fb options?

In other words, I know that xterm is invoked like this: xterm -fn 9x15 -fb 9x15bold ...

I would like to increase the font size, but do not know how to determine what options are available nor how to (perhaps) increase the options available.

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  1. Best Answer

    The X server finds its fonts along its "FontPath". If you do a grep -A 7 FontPath /var/log/Xorg.0.log you'll see directories with fonts files in them.

    Take a look at this link,

    and Big-X cursor

    and the Font HOW-TO

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