Tiny Core Base > TCB Q&A Forum

text font too small to see on AppBrowser and Aterm

(1/7) > >>

henry:
 The text displayed on AppBrowser and the terminals are very small, is there any way to increase the text font size?

Thanks.

moB:
henry,

don't know much, but can venture to answer part of your question .

I am not sure about the appbrowser, but there is an easy way to increase the font size in aterm.

I made you a small example script.  You can save it in your tc directory as myterm and run it with

--- Code: ---./myterm

--- End code ---
(from the tiny default CLI :^)



--- Code: ---#! /bin/sh
#
# opens aterm with selected font.
# To see fonts installed say xlsfonts at CLI (terminal)
# The ones at the bottom work this way.
# Do the ones at top of listing work in .Xdefaults? (I've not yet tried this)
#
# start this with ./myterm if in tc directory.
#
# pink is perhaps easier on the eyes -- find colors and effects you like
#
aterm -fn 10x20 -sh 94 -tint lightyellow -fg orange &
exit

--- End code ---


One can make a TCE from this to load at boot.

See the wikki: http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/Creating+Personal+Icons
[Thanks to: dentonlt , OldAdamUser2 , Sandras , curaga and Kingdomcome]


Perhaps the fonts listed above by the xlsfonts command are suitable for use in the /home/tc/.Xdefaults file?
If that's the case your problems with appbrowser will also be solved.

I like to just say (ie type) "aterm ...bla bla bla & exit" and make the terminal as I like it at each use.
You might do it this way, too.

Hope it helps!

moB


No more the whale did me confine.
 --Melville, Moby Dick


4. Saying smart things and giving smart answers are important.
   Learning to listen to others and to ask smart questions is more important.
 --Bob Sutton

gerald_clark:
You could also add an aterm alias in .ashrc.

rbacher:
I have been working on the exact same problem. I have a very small screen and it's very hard to see the small fonts. I figured out how to change the fonts in aterm, that's not so hard, but I can't figure out how to make the fonts bigger in Tiny Core in general (cpanel, appbrowser,etc)?  One suggestion was to edit .Xdefaults but that didn't work. If you run a Tiny Core program (for example, appbrowser) from the command line in a terminal window, you can get a list of options by running $ appbrowser -h however there wasn't any option for fonts. I tried to set a bigger font in .xsession but that didn't work either. Can anyone help? Thanks

roberts:
Typically specifying a lower resolution results in larger characters throughout.
If using Xvesa see Xvesa on the control panel or at boot time with the xsetup boot option.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page