change font size in Xwindows

2007-12-25 10:00:00

This is summary on my question.

Thanks to the

      

      Harvey Wamboldt <harvey@iotek.ns.ca>

      Bevan Broun <bevanb@ee.uwa.edu.au>

      foster@bial1.ucsd.edu

      

      who replied.

      

      

The answers are .

change the resoluton of the monitor

using command

/usr/sbin/ffbconfig -res 1152x900x76 now

or change the Xresource through the .Xdefaults file

Also you can use editres to edit the Xresources.

This does not works for most applications.

Regards

Sp LAW

> Hi All,

>

> I am new to CDE and solaris 2.5.1 . Pardon me for my ignorance.

>

> With the present high resolution monitors and graphics ,

> many older applications display in Xwindows with very small text fonts

> and I find it very difficult to read .

>

> In CDE I can change the font size from the control panel

> but it is not effective for most programs. Do you know how to overcome

> this ?

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