There seem to be a miriad of ways of accomplishing this.
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I forgot to mention that we are using SunOS 4.1.3, so although this solution
won't work for me, it seems to be the easiest for Solaris 2.3 users ...
workspace menu -> Properties -> Fonts
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The simpleest/most popular answer for SunOS 4.1.3 is to edit the .Xdefaults
file in the users home directory and add the following line.
Window.Scale: large
and then to run
xrdb .Xdefaults
Default value is "medium". Other legal values are "small" and "extra_large".
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Another popular solution was to set some combination of the following
in the users .Xdefaults file ...
XTerm*Font: -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-m-*-*-*
Font.Name: -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-m-*-*-*
*ButtonFont: -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-m-*-*-*
*MenuButtonFont: -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-m-*-*-*
*TextFont: -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-m-*-*-*
*TitleFont: -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-m-*-*-*
*buttonFont: -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-m-*-*-*
It seems the fonts can also be set on a per application basis ...
emacs*font: -adobe-courier-bold-r*140*
emacs*boldFont: -adobe-courier-bold-r*140*
pine*font: -adobe-courier-bold-r*140*
xterm*font: -adobe-courier-bold-r*140*
xterm*boldFont: -adobe-courier-bold-r*140*
NOTES: - "xlsfonts -output" displays the list of supported fonts.
- xfontsel can be used to view the fonts!
- apparently "Courier" and "Schumacher" are the only fixed-width fonts.
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Here is a summary sent to me by Vincenzo Tantimonaco <E.Tantimonaco@ITS.IT>
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SUMMARY - How to change font size
As usual the answers came quickly. Although most of the fixes work in
4.1.3 and 2.x, some will only work in one or the other.
The suggestions are:
in ~/.openwin-init. add to the cmdtool lines -Wx extra_large
or
-scale large or
-scale medium
In .Xdefaults there are a wide variety of choices:
Window.Scale: medium
Window.Font: Screen-14
Font.Name: screen.b.16
Font.Name: screen.b.16
works well on SunOS but not on Solaris;
Font.Name:-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-*-180-75-75-m-*-*-*
works well on most things
OpenWindows.TextFont: screen.r.20 .
font.name: courier-bold-18
font.name: screen.r.-12
XTerm*boldFont: -*-lucida sans typewriter-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
XTerm*font: -*-lucida sans typewriter-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
The following note may be useful to those who are not fully X enabled:
I use both shelltool and xterm. I just played with it and if I change
the font.name value to "screen.r.-18" and do a "xrdb ~/.Xdefaults",
shell tools and command tools come up with the bigger font and my
xterms are left alone.
Use xfontsel to view fonts
Another recommendation:
The Way recommended by SUN to comply to german Ergonomics is to install
Patch 100452-06 (hey, I should look into that one ...).
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