[xmonad] increase size of font on terminal

Sean Neilan sean at seanneilan.com
Sat Feb 20 23:00:09 EST 2010


Got it. I didn't know xmonad used xterm. That makes this much easier.

Thank you very much!

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Tom Tobin <korpios at korpios.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Sean Neilan <sean at seanneilan.com> wrote:
> > Hey All,
> > Does anyone know how to increase the font size on the terminal that comes
> > with xmonad? You know, the one for when you press Alt-Shift-Enter.
>
> That terminal doesn't come with xmonad; it's xterm [1].
>
> A lot depends on your particular system, but you can try adding the
> following to your ~/.Xresources file:
>
> xterm*faceSize: 14
>
> The next xterm you open will hopefully be at a larger size.  Xterm
> configuration is unfortunately a somewhat involved topic, though, and
> probably beyond the scope of this group.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xterm
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