[NBLUG/talk] Red Hat 9.0 font control from the command line

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Mon May 19 09:54:01 PDT 2003


Works for me..... with KDE Konsole as you describe, gnome-terminal a little 
more work... right click , Edit Profile, In the GENERAL tab uncheck the "Use 
the same size font as other applications", choose your font.....

On Monday 19 May 2003 07:55, Steve Zimmerman wrote:
> In Red Hat 7.2 one may change font sizes from the command line like this:
> right click from the terminal emulator-> Fonts-> Choose from menu to change
> font size.  It's quick and easy.
>
> In 8.0, changing font size requires one to exit the terminal emulator
> altogether and do several extra point and clicks
> before one can change the font size.  Then by the time you're back in the
> terminal emulator you're feeling all smudgy inside, 'cause you're
> saying to yourself, "How could they screw up something so
> wonderful?"  Then you remind yourself that you couldn't program
> yourself out of a paper bag to save your life, and you settle down : -)
>
> My question is: Does RH 9.0 correct this problem?  I.e., does RH 9.0
> have the easy-changing font feature back again???

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