Pickyfont - change your terminal font on the fly

Question

While I'm getting older my eyes are too. I looked for some way to change the
terminal font on the fly, like you can do with 'setfont' in the VT. I found
none, so I came up with this, nothing fancy but quite handy.
Project: http://github.com/trapd00r/pickyfont
AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39032
Last edited by dmz (2010-08-22 19:34:31)

Answer 1

thayer wrote:
Handy tool, dmz thanks.
In my case I often specify both *font and *boldFont values in my Xdefaults since terminus doesn't include bold letters at the smaller sizes.
Pickyfont doesn't appear to set/change the boldFont if it was previously specified.
I found a different escape sequence to switch fonts at runtime:
# normal font
printf "\033]710;%s\007" "${font}"
# bold font
printf "\033]711;%s\007" "${bold_font}"
See http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt- … 00886.html for a urxvt perl extension.
Edit: it all in man 7 urxvt
XTerm Operating System Commands
       "ESC ] Ps;Pt ST"
           Ps = 50    Set fontset to Pt, with the following special values of Pt (rxvt) #+n change up n #-n change down n if n is missing of 0, a value of 1 is used empty change to font0 n change to font n
           Ps = 710   Set normal fontset to Pt. Same as Ps = 50.
           Ps = 711   Set bold fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles).
           Ps = 712   Set italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles).
           Ps = 713   Set bold-italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles).
Last edited by lolilolicon (2010-03-16 15:28:58)