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I'm using smaller-vt-font() and larger-vt-font() to quickly change the font size. However, the steps in which the font size changes are too big and I want them to be smoother so the resulting font sizes are closer to the default font size.

After doing some research, I think I have to redefine the "Unreadable", "Tiny", "Small", "Medium", "Large" and "Huge" font sizes. There is this particular question which describes the issue. However, terminus-12, terminus-14 and so on won't work, because xlsfonts doesn't list those bitmap font aliases for me:

$ xlsfonts
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
6x13
cursor
fixed

Currently, my .Xresources looks like this:

XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono
XTerm*faceSize: 12
XTerm.vt100.translations: #override \n\
  Ctrl <Key> minus: smaller-vt-font() \n\
  Ctrl <Key> plus: larger-vt-font()

What do I need to add, to set the sizes of "Unreadable", "Tiny", "Small", "Medium", "Large" and "Huge" to 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 for example?

finefoot
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That's done with the related faceSize1, etc., resources mentioned in the xterm manual page.

Thomas Dickey
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Just to add a specific example to Thomas Dickeys great answer: I added the following lines to .Xresources:

 XTerm.vt100.faceSize1: 9
 XTerm.vt100.faceSize2: 10
 XTerm.vt100.faceSize3: 11
 XTerm.vt100.faceSize4: 12
 XTerm.vt100.faceSize5: 13
 XTerm.vt100.faceSize6: 14
 XTerm.vt100.faceSize7: 15

And then did the usual procedure to have XTerm pick up the configuration change (xrdb ~/.XResources and restarting XTerm).

Jakob Buron
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