Re: Changing font size for xterm

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  4 Jan, Brian Fuller wrote about "Re: Changing font size for xterm"
> Thanks for the tips. I tried them out and they worked as expected. The
> next step is to be able to change the default fonts. Would that be don
> in a .conf file?
> 
> 

Xterm uses the 'fixed' font as the default.  The only other way to make
a default is with your X Resources.  If you want to change it for
everybody on your system edit /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm and add a line
of the form 

XTerm*font:   <fontname>

If you want to change it just for you then add the above line to the
file ~/.Xresources.

The same can be done for emacs or any other application.  For global
changes if there is no file in /etc/X11/Xresource for your app just
create a file(I think its name does not matter) and place in it any
Xresource that you want(see the man page for the app).  For local
changes just add them to your ~/.Xresources.

Some application have a file in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ that lists
some of their default Xresources, or read the man page.  You can copy
bits and pieces out of there into the appropriate file from above and add
the class of the application to the beginning of the line(XTerm for
xterms, Emacs for emacs, again see the man pages).

Brian Servis
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