Font size too small on Terminal

satimis · 2007-02-16 07:03:49

Hi folks,

slamd64-11.0
xfce4

Please advise how to increase the font size on terminal. They are too small to read. TIA

B.R.
satimis

midget · 2007-02-21 19:01:50

satimis wrote:

Please advise how to increase the font size on terminal. They are too small to read. TIA

It would help a lot if you told us what terminal your are using.

SimonJ · 2007-02-22 00:29:07

Is there more than one in XFCE?

Nick · 2007-02-22 07:34:18

terminal (shipped with 4.4, tabs) and xfce4-terminal (4.2, no tabs)

midget · 2007-02-22 10:02:58

SimonJ wrote:

Is there more than one in XFCE?

Hm.. I just installed Xubuntu, and I have xterm aswell smile
And the font in xterm is small by default.

satimis · 2007-02-24 15:00:49

Hi folks,

Tks for your advice.

I suppose it is "xterm". I can increase font size by [Ctrl]+Rightclick

then select
tiny
medium
large
huge
etc.

I tried to install "Terminal-0.2.5.8rc2-installer.run"

# sh Terminal-0.2.5.8rc2-installer.run
missing file "vte.pc""

I don't know which package I need to install.

Tks

B.R.
satimis

Jellybean · 2007-02-24 19:45:00

Give xterm some arguments when you start it to give it font name and size:

xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" -fs 12

Note that you can't change the size of the standard font as it's a bitmap font.

Nick · 2007-02-25 21:47:31

satimis wrote:

# sh Terminal-0.2.5.8rc2-installer.run
missing file "vte.pc""

You need to install the vte-devel package.

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