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peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

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[Solved] Change urxvt's font on the fly: Can YOU do it?

When I'm in a good mood, my terminal font is Terminus with pixelsize 12, and it's pretty.

Sometimes though I realize I'd be happier if my font was a bit bigger. Is there a way to change font size in an already-running urxvt?

Last edited by peets (2008-02-18 14:31:48)

mrcold

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Registered: 2008-01-24

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Re: [Solved] Change urxvt's font on the fly: Can YOU do it?

I would also like to know this...

badger

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From: Melb

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 76

Re: [Solved] Change urxvt's font on the fly: Can YOU do it?

Something like this:

! :Bind C-0, C-+ and C-= to activate small, medium, and big font size resp.     
URxvt.keysym.C-0: command:\033]710;-*-dina-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*\007
URxvt.keysym.C-minus: command:\033]710;-*-dina-medium-r-normal--15-*-*-*-*-*-*-*\007
URxvt.keysym.C-equal: command:\033]710;-*-dina-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*\007

May cause your cat to hate you or your local garbage collector to knock your house down. Cheers.

semdornus

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From: Tokyo

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 47

Re: [Solved] Change urxvt's font on the fly: Can YOU do it?

Besides setting up keys such as badger mentions you can also, for a quick change,  paste this in a running terminal:

printf '\33]50;%s\007' "xft:Terminus:pixelsize=20"

See man 7 urxvt ("Can I switch the fonts at runtime?" and "Can I see a typical configuration?") for more info.

peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

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Re: [Solved] Change urxvt's font on the fly: Can YOU do it?

I won't bother finding out what those escapes actually mean this time

~ $ cat ~/bin/fsize
#!/bin/bash
printf '\33]50;%s%d\007' "xft:Terminus:pixelsize=" $1

Thanks guys.