font and screen size

[Reid Thompson]

Cole Radcliffe wrote:
> OK. I think it was not working because I was just appending options to
>  -e /usr/bin/bash -l" in the startx batch file which for
> some reason does not work for any option I append (the shell just dies
> quickly).
> 
> One interesting thing I found is that if I replace the "%RUN% xterm -e
> /usr/bin/bash -l" in the startx batch file with "xterm -fn 12X24" I
> get the large font size however it opens onto my Windows desktop not
> my cygwin hierarchy which is in a different drive. It opens into the
> correct drive but with the small font with "%RUN% xterm -e
> /usr/bin/bash -l".
> 
> How can I get it to open with the large font size in the correct directory?
> 
> On 9/5/07, Cole Radcliffe <coleradcliffe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That is weird. I do not have a .Xdefaults in my home directory. I do
>> have a .Xauthority-c file, which is empty. I downloaded it pretty
>> recently, maybe we are working with different versions.
>>
>> On 9/5/07, Angelo Graziosi <Angelo.Graziosi@roma1.infn.it> wrote:
>>> In my $HOME/.Xdefaults I have:
try
"%RUN% xterm -fn 12x24 -e /usr/bin/bash -l

anything after the -e /usr/bin/bash is being passed as a parameter to 
bash, not xterm...

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