Re: How to run a second X server at a different resolution

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:16:58 -0500, Chris F.A. Johnson staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
On 2006-03-28, Dances With Crows wrote:
? Crank the font size up. xterm doesn't have a menu option for
changing the fonts on the fly,
Then what do I see when I press Control and the right mouse button in
xterm?

Amazing, they finally put one in.

Now what kind of $3 crack were they on when they decided to not make
this menu (and all other UI options/commands that can be changed or
executed at runtime, as seen in Ctrl+button 1 and Ctrl+button 2 menus)
visible by default in a *menubar*, the way every other GUI app does?
Athena widgets, primitive and horrible as they are, let you create a
menubar--right? Also, it appears possible to change the font size via
this menu, but not the font itself.

OK, there's history and tradition to consider. xterm's been around
longer than practically every other X terminal emulator, so naturally
its UI would've ossified in the 1980s.

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