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What is the default font display in the xterminal?

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> James Miller wrote:
> >
> > Another possible glitch is running an xterminal: does the
> > mode selected at boot time apply to xterminals?
>
> In an xterminal, you can set the font directly.  For example:
> -----------------
> xterm -font 12x24
> -----------------
> will use a big font (giving you approx. 65 columns, 22 lines).
> At the other extreme, you could use 4x6 (which gives you twice
> as many columns/rows).  There are many font types/sizes available
> in /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts.  The simplest ones are in the the misc
> directory.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
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