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lolrar

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Registered: 2022-02-23

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Unable to change XTerm font size using ~/.Xdefaults, or ~/.Xresources.

So for context, I use xterm on my debian machine, and I am able to easily increase or decrease the font with ~/.Xdefaults and with the line

 xterm*font: *-fixed-*-*-*-18-* 

However, when I try this with my arch machine, it does not work. I am able to go to ~/.Xdefaults on my arch machine and change the background and foreground colors, but for some reason I am unable to change the font size. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Unable to change XTerm font size using ~/.Xdefaults, or ~/.Xresources.

xrdb -q | grep -i xterm
pacman -Qs xorg-fonts

Can you change the font (size) w/ the ctrl+rmb menu?
("right mouse button")

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lolrar

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Registered: 2022-02-23

Posts: 6

Re: Unable to change XTerm font size using ~/.Xdefaults, or ~/.Xresources.

xrdb -q | grep -i xterm
pacman -Qs xorg-fonts

Can you change the font (size) w/ the ctrl+rmb menu?
("right mouse button")

So I tried to change the font size with ctrl + rmb, and whenever I switch it to large, it doesn't change the font size and returns to default after exiting and restarting xterm.

As for the first to commands, what exactly do they do?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,800

Re: Unable to change XTerm font size using ~/.Xdefaults, or ~/.Xresources.

As for the first to commands, what exactly do they do?

https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/xorg-xrdb/xrdb.1.en
https://man.archlinux.org/man/core/pacman/pacman.8.en

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