Re: Problems with xt5250

  On 11/16/2010 11:45 AM, John Aldrich wrote:
> I'm invoking it from a terminal window (for testing purposes) as follows
> "xt5250 brcc2" and it connects just fine, but it's in a small window maybe
> 6" tall by 8" wide (at most) and I want it to be full-screen. How the heck
> do I do that?

Hello John,

I can't answer your exact question but I can tell you how I deal with 
it.  In the past I would start an xt5250 session and then hold down my 
left control key and click on my right mouse button to choose what size 
font I wanted (in my case, Huge).

Nowadays I have modified my /usr/bin/xt5250 script:
----------
# Try to use xterm with our custom key mappings.
if type xterm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
   XUSERFILESEARCHPATH="$pkgdatadir/%N" \
   exec xterm -name "xt5250" -bg black -fg white -T "xt5250 - 
$XT5250_HOST" \
     +sb -geometry 80x25 -fa lucidatypewriter -fs 14 -e "$0" -BOOT "$@"
fi
----------
I modified the fifth line above in the code snippet (for me this is on 
line 118 in the actual script).  I added the "-fa lucidatypewriter -fs 
14" part.  It tells my xterm to use the LucidaTypeWriter font and start 
at a font size of 14.  This gives me a pretty good sized window to work 
with though I still usually use that "left control key/right mouse 
button" functionality to choose the "Medium" size and increase the font 
size further.

That still doesn't make a window fit the whole screen but it's quite 
large.  It seems like someone has asked about this before and there is a 
technical reason why we can't just click on the xterm's button and make 
it full screen - I believe it has something to do with xt5250 not being 
able to know the exact size of the xterm window it's running in, 
therefore it can't automagically re-size the fonts to make xt5250 fit 
the full screen.

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable can give you a better answer but in 
the meantime I can offer you what I hope is a close alternative.
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