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I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make the font in Rxvt more readable. I'd like to make it bigger and bolder, if possible. I tried tinkering around with the stuff in /root/.Xdefaults as prescribed in this thread, to no avail. Somehow I made the font bold, but nothing I tried makes it bigger.

I'd try Bruce's recommendation, but I can't figure out where to put it.

Later: okay, I discovered that entering

rxvt -fn 10x20

opens a new rxvt window with larger font. However, other combinations such as 15x30 won't work, and I still don't know how to make it bold.

I get a little more control by changing and adding the lines to /root/.Xdefaults (hidden, hit the eye in tool bar to see) with text editor. This way, you don't use a command argument. Here are the two lines I add. Use a copy & paste, then save, to enter these for a try:
On the first line added, you can obtain the fonts possible choices of code from Menu>Desktop>Xfontsel font viewer. The default * on "courier" font is bold. You might want to change 180 to 240 for even a larger type.

The second line adjusts the size of the window and location.
Rxvt*geometry:width x height + horizonal + vertical (no spaces on the real entry).

You just have to play with these numbers to get the size and location correct.

To remark-out a line in .Xdefaults use "!" at the beginning of line.

Kal

rxvt --help

man rxvt

google/scroogle/ixquick rxvt

fgs

Hey Flash

why are you guys still suffering with rxvt?

when sakura allows copy and paste ,tabs,
and easily with a GUI change font and color choice and size
transparent or use your own background ?

easy and more powerful

havent tried on later than version 4.12 but should work

Sakra +Libs
http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/big_bass/sakura-2.3.2.pet
http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/big_bass/vte-0.16.12.pet

right click in the terminal and this window opens

Joe

Thanks Big Bass. I might try that eventually but I've invested so much time into figuring how to use rxvt that I'll stick with that for the moment.

After some tinkering here's what worked for me:

• -bg yellow makes the background yellow in the rxvt window
  -fn *-Fixed-* makes rxvt use the Fixed font. Turns out that rxvt will only use fixed spacing fonts, and Puppy only has two: Courier and Fixed. I like Fixed best.
  -20-* is the size I liked best

I right-clicked on the Console icon, chose Edit Item and put it in the window that says Arguments to pass (for executables). I also put it on every line in /root/.Xdefaults that looked like it might have anything to do with fonts. (after removing the !U from the lines that started with Urxvt)

Now when I open rxvt I get a big yellow window with a font big enough and bold enough that I can read it from across the room.

See also this thread.

RXVT -f read its font out of font.alias .
font.alias is allingd to font.dir .
The are in /usr/X11R7/share/X11/fonts/misc .
Not all the fonts have a alias name in font.alias .
Try rxvt -fn 12x24 . which is file 12x24.pcf .
In this why I put in the IBM pc850 tables .

Flash:
It's rxvt -fn not rxvt -f

Try rxvt -fn 12x24 in a console and it should make your font large enough to read

Still, it only works with monospace fonts.

Also rxvt is what code::blocks uses as "console".
Hard to read output if can't read font

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