Questions on xgterm

[wuqso]

I was able to install x11iraf and I have two questions on xgterm.

1. On the high DPI screen of my laptop, the xgterm window and the fonts therein are small even I use 'xgterm -fn 12x24'.
2. There are three backslashes before the prompt in the xgterm window.
   

[olebole]

The backslashes probably come from escape sequences of your shell prompt. They will not appear in IRAF.
For highdpi screens: Fixes are welcome. Just open a Pull Request ;-)

[olebole]

Just a hint for highdpi screens: you can use the fonts "lucidasanstypewriter-12" or "terminus-18" which give you larger screen. You may play with the size; lucidasanstypewriter isavailable in 8/10/12/14/18/24, and terminus in 12/14/16/18/20/22/24/28/32.

To play with it, just add it as a command line option, xgterm -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12 -e irafcl. To make it permanent, put it into the ~/.Xresources and merge it with xrdb ~/.Xresources.

For the Terminus font, you need to install the package xfonts-terminus, and (if you don't want to restart the X server) do a xset fp rehash.

[Firestar-Reimu]

I use Archlinux, I struggled for this afternoon to fix this.

1. install xorg-mkfontscale, you have mkfontdir and mkfontscale
2. install xorg-xlsfonts you have xlsfonts
3. mkfontscale && mkfontdir && xset fp rehash, and then xlsfonts, see what fonts do you have? if there is no what you like you can install some packages like xorg-fonts-misc xorg-fonts-100dpi terminus-font
4. test what font you like with xgterm -fn ???, for me it is lucidasanstypewriter-24
5. add xgterm*font: lucidasanstypewriter-24 to ~/.Xresources and merge it with xrdb ~/.Xresources
6. do a xset fp rehash, check xrdb -query