How to change rxvt's font size? [solved]

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#22 Post by BadCam »

Hey Folks.

I've installed Sakura.

I can select the palette (currently tango), but how can I change the font color(s)?

Thanks.

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#23 Post by stu90 »

I know this is marked solved but i will post this here anyway.

To get nice looking fonts along with a decent size.

First back up your /root/.Xdefaults file.

cp /root/.Xdefaults /root/.Xdefaults.old

Then open with a text editor and delete all text in /root/.Xdefaults and paste this into the file:

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rxvt*foreground:Green
rxvt*background:#424242

! fonts
! run "fc-list" for a list of available fonts
rxvt*font: xft:Nimbus Mono L:style=Regular:pixelsize=20

rxvt*geometry: 40x15
rxvt*scrollBar: False
rxvt*scrollTtyOutput: False
rxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: True
rxvt*secondaryScroll: True
rxvt*saveLines: 1000 
To change font see the !font section in the code above , your font is after rxvt*font: xft:
run the command fc-list in terminal to get a list of all fonts / styles you can use - then copy the font / style from the terminal to your /root/.Xdefaults file - the pixelsize= is your font size the higher the value the bigger the font size.

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#24 Post by jfh »

already answered

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#25 Post by SimpleWater »

cool stuff stu 8)

I erased the file and placed some things , with some tweaks of course

urxvt.saveLines: 0
urxvt.scrollBar: false
urxvt.scrollWithBuffer: false
urxvt.font: xft:Nimbus Mono L:pixelsize=15
urxvt.geometry: 60x16
urxvt.background: #596782
urxvt.foreground: springgreen

stu90

#26 Post by stu90 »

SimpleWater wrote:cool stuff stu 8)

I erased the file and placed some things , with some tweaks of course

urxvt.saveLines: 0
urxvt.scrollBar: false
urxvt.scrollWithBuffer: false
urxvt.font: xft:Nimbus Mono L:pixelsize=15
urxvt.geometry: 60x16
urxvt.background: #596782
urxvt.foreground: springgreen
Hi SimpleWater,

After i posted in this thread i made an easier way to set up with a GUI 8)

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=68624

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#27 Post by SimpleWater »

stu90 wrote: Hi SimpleWater,

After i posted in this thread i made an easier way to set up with a GUI 8)

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=68624
nice to have GUI alternative. I actually spent quite some time balancing out the colours until it felt pleasing to me. But when i need to mix and match again i will be sure to check it out. Though it looks to be for rxvt only. I use the default, which is rxvt-unicode.

For rxvt-Unicode users, something neat to try for people with solid wallpapers or some decent wallpaper. Transperency

urxvt.inheritPixmap: true

Bruce B

#28 Post by Bruce B »

For years I used Puppy emulators with the font 10x20

It was taken out with Lupu. I tried to get it to take by coping it over and running some tools and editing the alias file and I don't actually recall, because it was a while back.

Does anyone know how to put 10x20 into Lupu 5.20?

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#29 Post by miriam »

Bruce B, you probably no longer have any need of this, but just in case you or someone else is interested... I think copying over the X font is not enough. I think you have to open a terminal in the directory where the font now is and type these two commands:

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mkfontdir
mkfontscale
I believe that sets up the information in the directory to let programs know what fonts are there. (It rebuilds the two files "fonts.dir" and "fonts.scale".)

Incidentally, if you want more X fonts, including unicode support for your terminal Marcus Kuhn has a great guide here:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
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#30 Post by musher0 »

Hi miriam.

I thought the command to update the font caches was

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fc-cache -r
-r... as in "real" update.

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#31 Post by miriam »

Aha! I wondered how the third file got updated. Thanks musher0.
I guess all three programs might need to be run.
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