
However color4 is the most likely resource setting to focus on changing. Others edit $HOME/.Xdefaults (there are several ways to accomplish this). I do not - rather, I set the XAPPLRESDIR environment variable to point to my own customizable resource files. Then you can use ctrl + + to increase font size or ctrl + to decrease the size, just like you can with ctrl + right-click and selecting one of the other font size options. If youre using a fixed font its done with xtermfont1 options, but for a TrueType font add the following to your. How do you change font size in Uxterm If you use uxterm, be sure to use UXTerm. These can be configured to whatever size you want.
Typically people use "xrdb -merge" to apply resource settings. To alter the font size Ctrl+To apply a similar change to all xterm's you would use a resource setting. The program allows you to set a color with a different option, e.g., $ xtermcontrol -color4=rgb:0000/0000/ffffĪnd because the value is printed to the standard output, it would be possible to write a script to retrieve the current color and modify it.Īn escape sequence of course, applies only to the xterm in which it is sent. Where "eeee" is the hexadecimal value used for the color4 (normal blue).

If you have xtermcontrol installed, then you can get the value which is currently used for one of these, e.,g $ xtermcontrol -get-color4 o VT220 emulation does not support soft fonts, it is otherwise. The color(s) for blue are color4 (normal) and color12 (bright). Double-size characters are displayed properly if your font server supports scalable bitmap fonts. In Debian (and derived distributions such as Ubuntu), there is a package xtermcontrol which makes it simple to send escape sequences to set the xterm color palette. Assuming you are talking about xterm, there are two ways of setting colors:įor either, the value is normally set as an RGB (red/green/blue) string.
