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Help customizing xterm

513449May 17 2006 — edited May 17 2006
Hi people,

I am returning to unix after a very long time and hence the questions below

I would like to customize the xterm window which comes up through tarantella. What I essentially wanted to do was to set the -fs fontSize to a larger value so that I dont have to use Shift +/- etc. Since I didnt have the permissions to write to the /etc/X11/.Xresources file under root, I tried copying the same to my home /home/gapriya and tried changing/overriding the values for fonts, fonts sizes, key combinations using stuff like

xterm*VT100.Translations: #override \
<Key>BackSpace: string(0x7F)\n\
<Key>Delete: string("\033[3~")\n\
<Key>Home: string("\033[1~")\n\
<Key>End: string("\033[4~")
*ttyModes: erase ^?

#xterm*VT100*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal---200---c-*-iso8859-15

However I couldnot change the tty to anything like 100 or 220 and neither was I able to change the font size which is the reason I started out on the exercise.

Finally a I wrote a script to create a window to my liking. However, this is not a solution which I am looking for and anyway I am still unable to do anything with -fs option of xterm (wondering if the needed libraries are compiled into xterm which we are using).

Would greatly appreciate if some one could take the time to show me how to personalize my xterm window by effecting changes to files - I am thinking these files got to be the .bashrc file or ............

Thanks and regards,
Gautam
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