Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!nntp-read!jc From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: Changing default font size OW 2.0 Message-ID: Date: 26 May 91 02:49:25 GMT References: Sender: news@bu.edu Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????' Lines: 40 In-reply-to: gribble@ogre.cica.indiana.edu's message of 24 May 91 21:16:49 GMT >>>>> 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 -- -- James Cameron (jc@raven.bu.edu) Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab. Boston, Mass (617) 353-2879 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "But to risk we must, for the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. For the man or woman who risks nothing, has nothing, does nothing, is nothing." (Quote from the eulogy for the late Christa McAuliffe.)