[comp.windows.open-look] Changing default font size OW 2.0

gribble@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (05/25/91)

System: Sun IPC, SunOs 4.1.1b, OpenWindows 2.0, 16" color monitor

I know how to open windows w/ different fonts, but I want to change the
default font.  The default font is tiny and is killing my already poor
eyesight.  I've look through the manuals and it is not clear how to change
this.  Any ideas?

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jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) (05/26/91)

>>>>> On 24 May 91 21:16:49 GMT, gribble@ogre.cica.indiana.edu said:

|> System: Sun IPC, SunOs 4.1.1b, OpenWindows 2.0, 16" color monitor

|> I know how to open windows w/ different fonts, but I want to change the
|> default font.  The default font is tiny and is killing my already poor
|> eyesight.  I've look through the manuals and it is not clear how to change
|> this.  Any ideas?

|> --
|> * Steve Gribble  (812) 855-9172/7629         gribble@cica.cica.indiana.edu


	Well, you could but this at the top of your .Xdefaults file:

*Font: 9x15

	which would give you a 9x15 font for whatever you don't explicity
	set the font to be.  I am assuming (as it happened to me) that
	what you are really talking about is the 'xterm' font and 
	'emacs' font.  If this is the case, you might want to do this:

emacs*Font:	9x15
xterm*Font:	9x15


Hope this helps!

jc

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