https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:13:40 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2749/how-to-change-the-font-size-of-the-terminal/The font size of my terminal is still very small. I changed the font size in the .i3/config file and I also tried to adjust the gtk2 font size, but nothing has changed in the terminal. Any idea how I can change it?Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:28:13 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2749/how-to-change-the-font-size-of-the-terminal/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2749/how-to-change-the-font-size-of-the-terminal/?comment=2778#comment-2778You should tell us _which_ terminal you use. Note that i3-sensible-terminal is just a wrapper script that will execute the first terminal emulator it finds on your machine.Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:38:32 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2749/how-to-change-the-font-size-of-the-terminal/?comment=2778#comment-2778https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2749/how-to-change-the-font-size-of-the-terminal/?answer=2750#post-id-2750Put something like this in .Xresources or it might be named .Xdefaults Xft.dpi: 96.0 Xft.hinting: true Xft.hintstyle: hintslight Xft.antialias: true Xft.rgba: rgb *font: xft:ubuntu mono:size=13:style=medium:antialias=true *boldFont: xft:ubuntu mono:size=13:style=medium:antialias=true Then merge the new settings (or restart x) and open a new terminal. xrdb -merge .Xresources Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:52:05 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2749/how-to-change-the-font-size-of-the-terminal/?answer=2750#post-id-2750https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2749/how-to-change-the-font-size-of-the-terminal/?comment=5334#comment-5334As far as I can tell this has no effect for me, I still need to set the DPI manually with `xrandr --dpi 96` every time.Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:13:40 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2749/how-to-change-the-font-size-of-the-terminal/?comment=5334#comment-5334https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2749/how-to-change-the-font-size-of-the-terminal/?answer=2783#post-id-2783depending upon which terminal you also may have a config file for it, I use lxterminal as it seems to resize with some curses apps better when tiling. It has a config file and I just set it in thereThu, 24 Oct 2013 19:10:58 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2749/how-to-change-the-font-size-of-the-terminal/?answer=2783#post-id-2783