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Offline frank_0

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squinting my eyes
« on: January 26, 2010, 05:58:02 AM »
I have installed TCL 2.8 to hard disk and I like it.

Unfortunately, my eyes seem to disagree, after squinting
for a minute at the terminal window they go on strike.

Is there a way to get a terminal window twice the width
and twice the height with a 18p font?

Offline Guy

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Re: squinting my eyes
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2010, 06:45:59 AM »
Not really the answer you want, but you can change the screen resolution.

From the main menu (right click), select Tools -> Xvesa Setup.

You can also run a light or dark terminal if that is any help. From the menu, select Shells.
« Last Edit: January 26, 2010, 07:12:56 AM by Guy »
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Re: squinting my eyes
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2010, 06:59:20 AM »
Using Xorg it is easy to adjust in the terminal, in the gtk rc file, as well as the screen resolution, color depth, ...
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Re: squinting my eyes
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2010, 07:09:08 AM »
Aterm only supports bitmap fonts, and I don't think there are that many included. You can try using something like
"-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" as the font name in .Xdefaults.

Alternatively, use a terminal emulator that supports Truetype fonts, like Terminal or lxterminal. The font size should be easily available in their preferences.
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Re: squinting my eyes
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2010, 03:07:00 AM »
Still there Frank, you run IceWM without Xorg? I've got a fix for ya.
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