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

[big_bass]

Ok, I've installed sakura, and it's much nicer than rxvt, thanks.
It's relatively easy to change the "console" icon to run sakura.
But how to I change rox-filer's right-click->"Window"->"Terminal Here" menu to run sakura instead of rxvt?

gyro

Hey gyro

in ROX
Options>Menu

here's a screen shot where to change to sakura

big_bass

[gyro]

big_bass,

Spot on, thanks a lot.

I'm just rapt in having a console that's easy to configure with a font I like, in a large size I like, and with a colour scheme I like.

gyro

[Bruce B]

why are you guys still suffering with rxvt?

when sakura allows copy and paste ,tabs,font and color choice and size
transparent or your own background ?



the third post on that page explains why
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=38721

http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/big_bass/vte-0.16.12.pet
http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/big_bass/sakura-2.3.2.pet

I was looking for 200 but got 302 any idea why or how I can get these downloads? If so much appreciated.

[big_bass]

Bruce B

I just tried those links and they worked for me

Eric at puppylinx.ca had to use password protection for band width abuse

which he is using the same password as MU's site to keep it easy to remember

puppy
linux


if it still isn't working I will upload to the other server


big_bass

[big_bass]

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Virtual terminal emulator widget (VTE)

If you have installed libvte.so in your system,
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[BadCam]

Hey Folks.

I've installed Sakura.

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

Thanks.

[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.


http://i.imgur.com/G65Lcl.jpg

[jfh]

already answered

[SimpleWater]

cool stuff stu

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]

cool stuff stu

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

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

[SimpleWater]

Hi SimpleWater,

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

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]

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?

~

[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

[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.

BFN.

[miriam]

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