2

I want to increase the font size of a single X application which doesn't seem to have an Xresource for fonts and faces. How might I go about doing this?

(Ironically, the applications for which I want to increase the font size of are editres and xfontsel. I'm using this to configure a high-resolution display.)

Links and approaches tried

Improve this question

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
3

Both of those use the X toolkit (as noted in their manual pages), which means they also recognize its command-line options such as -fn (font). In a quick check, I was able to run those with the 10x20 font.

editres -fn 10x20
xfontsel -fn 10x20

There is a summary of the options in X(7).

Improve this answer
1
  • 1
    Nice. These seem to accept any x font (xlsfonts) including scalable fonts: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--$PXSIZE-0-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1 Commented Nov 20, 2017 at 0:47

You must log in to answer this question.

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.