[SOLVED] Change font size of Ratmenu and bash?

[rrttdd]

Hi forum,
recently I've installed Salix Ratpoison edition on my laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X60.

This computer has a 12" display with a screen resolution of 1400 x 1050, about 144 dpi.

So the fonts of Ratmenu and the Bash are very tiny.


The menu bar fonts of programs like gvim could also be bigger...

I've already tried the following:

1) I created a .Xdefaults file in my home directory

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Xft.dpi:        144
Xft.antialias:  true
Xft.rgba:       rgb
Xft.hinting:    true
Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight

Now xdpyinfo reports the correct dpi resolution, but the fonts are still way to small.

2) I tried to change main.sh of ratmenu

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ratmenu -font \
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--36-360-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1 \

As a result, the menu font got bigger indeed, but it's almost unreadable...

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How can I get a readable font size of about 24 to 36 in the bash and in ratmenu??

[gapan]

For bash, edit ~/.Xresources and change the size in this line:

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XTerm*faceName: Terminus:antialias=False:pixelsize=14

For ratmenu try

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-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--32-320-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1

[rrttdd]

Hi,
thanks for the answer!

For bash, edit ~/.Xresources and change the size in this line:

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XTerm*faceName: Terminus:antialias=False:pixelsize=14

This worked for me. Font size is now readable. In the Xresources-file there's another DPI configuration line I adapted to 144.

But I ran into another problem with Music on Console. It starts correctly, but then it cannot be put into background, expose'ed and restored correctly. Sometimes it crashes, sometimes I get a message "Terminal too small"...

For ratmenu try

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-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--32-320-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1

This didn't work. But meanwhile I've found out that the last parameter, the "60" in this case, has to be scaled as well.
This is my current line in the config file, which works fine:

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-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--36-360-72-72-c-180-iso8859-1

From the default file, I tripled the 12, the 120 and the 60.