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• Ubuntu terminal uxterm install#

Ubuntu terminal uxterm install#

Personally, I prefer a TrueType font with fixed width. Lots of advanced users prefer using bitmapped fixed width fonts in a terminal, search Google for more information. The important difference is that there are old-style bitmapped fixed width fonts and newer TrueType fonts. But for XTerm, we have to explicitly configure the font we want. Fonts in X are a mess as there are old and new systems, luckily end-users don't generally see this.

We can improve XTerm's looks by setting a nice looking font. xinitrc I have: if test -f " $HOME /.Xresources" then echo "merging. Errors are written to ~/.xsession-errors (though I didn't use this):įor manual testing that's fine, but depending on how you're starting X you have to tell it to load in the X11 resources that you've defined. To check it's loading the X resources go to the new XTerm and use xrdb again. X loads configuration into itself using the xrdb command: Merge in changes to a running X session with:.Technically, it can be any file you want and you can include others, but this is the standard one to use. The important thing to know is that X is object orientated so the configuration strings are matching object paths in the X server. X11 resources aren't used by modern X UI toolkits (e.g GTK+/KDE) but they're pretty powerful. XTerm can be configured through command line switches, or through X11 resources.