Re: two questions

[John Aldrich <jaldrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue June 21 2011, TN5250 wrote:
>   Hello John,
>
> At some point in the past I changed the xt5250 script itself.  On line
> 117 and 118 the script is executing this command:
>
> exec xterm -name "xt5250" -bg black -fg white -T "xt5250 - $XT5250_HOST"
> \ +sb -geometry 80x25 -fa lucidatypewriter -fs 14 -e "$0" -BOOT "$@"
>
> I added the "-fa lucidatypewriter -fs 14" piece, setting the font to
> Lucida Typewriter and the font size to 14.  I can't remember why I
> changed the script rather than putting the font setting in my .tn5250rc
> file but it was probably because I didn't know the correct syntax to use
> to set the font and it's size.
>
> I have a wide screen monitor with a resolution of 1920 x 1080.  I start
> an xt5250 session and then place my mouse cursor over the window, hold
> down the left Control key and right click - then I select "Large" font
> size.  That seems to be about perfect for my current setup.  I'm betting
> if I changed my xt5250 script to use -fs 16 or -fs 18 I wouldn't have to
> do that extra step with the Control key and mouse button...
Thanks... I'll give that a shot. I'm sure I can write a script that I can 
call from the desktop shortcut. :D