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How to change the font size of the terminal?

asked 2013-10-20 12:28:13 +0000

MaikKlein gravatar image

updated 2013-10-20 12:31:55 +0000

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?

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You 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.

Michael gravatar imageMichael ( 2013-10-24 18:38:32 +0000 )edit

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answered 2013-10-20 13:52:05 +0000

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Put 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
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As 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.

kynan gravatar imagekynan ( 2015-01-13 20:13:40 +0000 )edit
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answered 2013-10-24 19:10:58 +0000

jk121960 gravatar image

updated 2013-10-24 19:12:22 +0000

depending 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 there

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