font and screen size

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Cole Radcliffe wrote:

> I tried to change the font size with the option "-fs" after the xterm
> command however xterm did not recognize that option even though it
> appeared in "man xterm". I am guessing that it was just not compiled
> into the cygwin version of xterm. Is there any other way to accomplish
> this. I could just set the "-fn" option which stands for "font name"
> and use a font that has a large standard size but someone would need
> to explain to me how to set that up!
>
> I just want to get the shell larger in general so it does not hurt my
> eyes. Maybe there is another way just to scale everything up?

There are normally installed bitmap fonts (font2, etc), which can be 
selected with the control/right/mouse menu (or cycle through them with 
shifted numeric keypad "+" and "-" keys).

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