XWin: Tiny fonts on high resolution display
Eliot Moss
moss@cs.umass.edu
Sat Sep 29 02:21:00 GMT 2018
On 9/28/2018 6:32 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> A Google search shows that this is a very frequently asked question (e.g.,
> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00247.html), but I haven't found a
> good answer, except perhaps to use Gnome or some other desktop environment. (I
> haven't tried that yet.)
>
> I just got a new laptop with a 3840x2160 display. When I start the X server via
> startxwin, xterm and emacs open small windows with tiny fonts. Here are the
> xterm and emacs settings in my .Xresources:
>
> emacs.geometry: 80x34+340+40
> XTerm*geometry: 80x45
> XTerm*VT100*colorBDMode: on
> XTerm*VT100*colorBD: blue
> XTerm.VT100*colorULMode: on
> XTerm.VT100*underLine: off
> XTerm*VT100*colorUL: magenta
> XTerm*scrollBar: true
> XTerm*rightScrollBar: true
> XTerm*saveLines: 10000
> XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
So here's the thing - the width and height for these is in terms of number
of characters (in whatever the font is), not in pixels. The offsets *may*
be in pixels - I forget.
But what messes things us - which happens to me on my 3000x2000 display, is
the fonts. Here are the ones I use:
XTerm*font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-34-240-*-*-*-*-*-*
XTerm*bodyFont: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-34-240-*-*-*-*-*-*
Emacs.default.attributeFont: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-34-240-*-*-*-*-*-*
Hope this helps! Eliot
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