Re: X

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Leonid Leibman <http://www.raqia.com/~leonidl>
 > Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:36:21 -0400
 >
 > ---Executing: html-to-ascii
 > Hi, Robert --- how does one control the font size of an x-term?

Control Right Mouse Button.

 > There is
 > this file  /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm which I copied to my
 > directory and tried to play with
 > the font fields to no avail. Should it be somewhere in .Xdefaults?

If you'd like.  I put mine there.

 > I
 > actually do not have any
 > .Xdefaults in my directory -- maybe on the later RedHat versions
 > something other than
 > .Xdefaults is used?

At some point, something needs to say "xrdb ~/.Xdefaults".  That's the
only way to load up the X server.  (X clients usually don't know about
~/.Xdefaults )

 > BTW I discovered vim to myself -- it is almost perfect, certainly much
 > better than emacs.

Not nearly.  (I'm forced to use it on my ISP's computer.)  It looks pretty,
'though.

 > Leonid Leibman  
 >