XTerm - how to change used font size from its cmd line?

[glestwid]

Hi,

I can successfully change its background via

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xterm -bg blue

but don't know how to change the font size used in xterm session. Tried to specify

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-fs 20

- no luck, the font remains intact. How could I change it just for this run of xterm via its cmd line params?

[donald]

Use -fa and -fs parameters
e.g.

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xterm -fa 'Monospace' -fs 14

[glestwid]

Nope, the fs doesn't seem to work:


What should I do now?

[nanZor]

That's interesting - it works for me. Running the latest mostly stock 5.0 final lxde 64 bit though. So that's really puzzling. I even used single and regular quotes around Monospace and it worked either way.

Is there any other info we need to know? Is this from your 5.0 i586 xfce relatively stock, or is yours heavily modified already?

[Blaze]

That's interesting - it works for me.

For me too.

[donald]

@ glestwid

you use Porteus-XFCE 5.0 i586 ,right?
so I did setup the same to check if it works or not.

Here we go.
as guest:

as root:


I have no idea why it does not work for you --- it seems to work for anyone else.

[glestwid]

Is there any other info we need to know? Is this from your 5.0 i586 xfce relatively stock, or is yours heavily modified already?

Nope, no modifications were done on XFCE. Moreover, on LXQT xterm ignores font size as well. What should I do to have it fixed? My porteus seems to be a bit older:

[nanZor]

That's perplexing since it seems to a one-off case only affecting your setup, and nobody can reproduce the problem.

Other questions loom - are you dual screen and the working uxterm is on the other but hidden? Is this bare-stock running uxterm, or is this some other xterm module you are loading - does it only happen under a VM and not on real hardware? At this distance, I can only guess. etc etc.

As a diagnostic, and to make sure we are all on the same page, I'd install the latest 5.0 final - and see if you can reproduce the problem in a bare-stock form on actual hardware.

If it still show up as a problem, it may signify that you'll have to investigate on your own, and when the trouble is found, let us know!

[ncmprhnsbl]

My porteus seems to be a bit older:

kernel 5.12.14 looks like 5.0 rc1
another clue to porteus version is: `cat /etc/porteus/*` which will supply base module build dates..