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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11R4 xterm font trick
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.183820.9023@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 9 Jul 90 18:38:20 GMT
Reply-To: dce@smsc.Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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Here's something that may not be as common knowledge as it should be.

In X11R4, Ctrl-Button3 (that is, control-right-mouse-button) will pop
up a menu that allows you to change to a tiny font (so small that you
can't read the text, but you know it's there -- like the X10 xterm
icon), a small font (readable, but not for too long), a medium font
(good enough for when you need tiling), and a large font.

You can also choose the default font (the one that xterm was started
with), and if you have a selection, you can use that as the font name.
This last one is great for viewing fonts for potential use in xterm.
You do an xlsfonts in one window, select the name from that window,
and use it to change the font in another window (I usually put up
a man page or source text in the window).

People around here have made a lot of use out of this new menu item,
and I hope that this note is not old news to everyone reading this
group.
-- 
David Elliott
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