Re: changing font and font size in terminal emacs-27.2

[Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 06 2021,Colin Baxter wrote:


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> If you are using xterm then set the font in ~/.Xdefaults and/or
> ~/.Xresources. For example, I have
>
> ! Set font and size: 
> XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono Book
> !XTerm*faceName: Monospace
> XTerm*faceSize: 10
>
> For other settings, search the Internet for .Xdefaults .Xresources. The
> particular file depends on the Linux flavor. I have both files
> identical.
>
> Hope this helps.
>

Thanks, I did have that and it seems to have no effect;  Been trying
various stuff and at this point if I can get the emacs terminal font
at 12pt or above I'd be happy. :-)

$ xrdb -query|grep emacs
emacs*Background:       DarkSlateGray
emacs*Foreground:       Wheat
emacs*bitmapIcon:       on
emacs*cursorColor:      Orchid
emacs*pointerColor:     Orchid
emacs.font:     DejaVu Sans Mono-12

$ xrdb -query|grep face
UXTerm*faceName:        Cascadia Mono
UXTerm*faceSize:        12
XTerm*faceName: Cascadia Mono
XTerm*faceSize: 12
uxterm*faceSize1:       8
uxterm*faceSize2:       8
uxterm*faceSize3:       9
uxterm*faceSize4:       12
uxterm*faceSize5:       14
xterm*faceSize1:        8
xterm*faceSize2:        8
xterm*faceSize3:        9
xterm*faceSize4:        12
xterm*faceSize5:        14

$ xrdb -query|grep font
URxvt*font:     xft:DejaVuSansMono:medium:size=10
UXTerm.vt100.translations:      #override \nCtrl <Key> minus: smaller-vt-font() \nCtrl <Key> plus: larger-vt-font() \nCtrl <Key> 0: set-vt-font(d) \nCtrl Shift <Key>B: scroll-back(1, halfpage) \nCtrl Shift <Key>F: scroll-forw(1, halfpage) \nCtrl Shift <Key>C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \nCtrl Shift <Key>V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \nCtrl Shift <Key>H: set-altscreen(toggle) \nCtrl <Key>T: spawn-new-terminal()
XTerm.vt100.translations:       #override \nCtrl <Key> minus: smaller-vt-font() \nCtrl <Key> plus: larger-vt-font() \nCtrl <Key> 0: set-vt-font(d) \nCtrl Shift <Key>B: scroll-back(1, halfpage) \nCtrl Shift <Key>F: scroll-forw(1, halfpage) \nCtrl Shift <Key>C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \nCtrl Shift <Key>V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \nCtrl Shift <Key>H: set-altscreen(toggle) \nCtrl <Key>T: spawn-new-terminal()
emacs.font:     DejaVu Sans Mono-12


sivaram
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