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  3. March 2006

Re: Terminal window too tiny


As I test, I did the following:

a) Opened up /usr/local/share/tn5250/XTerm

b) Added the following lines to the bottom:

xt5250.VT100*font: 10x20
xt5250.VT100*font1: -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-iso8859-1
xt5250.VT100*font6: -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--8-80-75-75-m-50-iso8859-1
(forgive me if those lines get wrapped by the e-mail client... there should be 3 lines, and each should begin with "xt5250.VT100".) 

c) Save changes and exit.

d) Run xt5250.

The default font is now 10x20.
When I use ctrl-right-click and select "unreadable" it uses the "sondy fixed medium" font (which is actually pretty big, and certainly not unreadable!) When I select "huge" from that same menu, it now displays the "adobe courier" font (which is neither huge not particularly readable!)
I just picked those fonts at random for testing. You can, of coruse, use any font you have installed. The "font" setting corresponds to the default font, and the "font1 - font6" settings correspond to the 6 other choices on the ctrl-right-click menu. 

Good luck


On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Rich Duzenbury wrote:


On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:49 -0600, Scott Klement wrote:

To reconfigure the menu, you can change options in your .Xresources file.
You may even be able to put the settings in /usr/local/share/tn5250/XTerm
file, though I haven't experimented with it.


Indeed.  I've not fiddled with many of the innards of X-windows.  Funny
how those things manage to get 'on the list', but never seem to get
worked on.

Thanks.

Regards,
Rich

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