Re: [LinuxRedHatInstall] Re: Changing Startup Defaults

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 07:58:54PM -0600, Manuel Camacho wrote:
| On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Telecom Tom wrote:
| > Speaking of window managers and startup defaults, can someone tell me
| > how to change the default font size? We're using Fvwm now.
[...]
| What is to be done, is to copy one of this files as 
| /home/whatever_your_login_is/.fvwmrc

Or more succinctly
	~/.fvwmrc
in most shells.

| and modify it for configuration.

Indeed. And then another time when you're more practiced you can do
what I do when I change window managers, and pop up the manual entry in
one window and an editor open on the .fvwmrc in another, and walk every
single config option in the manual, configuring as you like it. This is
a handy way to learn what facilities a wm has; some you'll never know
are there until you do this kind of thing.

| Now, about fonts. Fvwm uses 4 different types of fonts, each of them could be
| configured independently from the others:
| 
| *Font: font type associated to menus.
| *WindowFont: as it name implies, the font used on window titles.
| *IconFont: for the icon labels. If not present, Font is used.
| *PagerFont: used for virtual consoles.
| 
| Regarding the fonts for window contents, they depend on the specific
| application. For instance,
| 
| whatever_your_login_is$ xterm -geometry 80x25-20-30 -fn 7x13bold ...
| 
| will open a xterm window where text appears on a midium size bold font.

Also, you can have a read of
	http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/answers/xterm-fonts.txt
where I yabber on a bit about setting xterm fonts; this generalises to
other tools under X pretty easily.
-- 
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