There is no shortage of Linux X Window terminal emulators. For a power user who works long hours with the terminal, it is important to know how to zoom in, that is, make the text larger. Your strained eyes will thank you for it.
The table below summarizes how to increase and decrease the font size on the fly for an non-exhaustive list of terminal emulators.
| Terminal emulators | + font size | - font size |
|---|---|---|
| xterm | Shift + Keypad Plus(+) | Shift + Keypad Minus(-) |
| GNOME terminal | Control + Shift + Plus(+) Do not use keypad. |
Control + Minus(-) Do not use keypad. |
| Terminator | Control + Shift + Plus(+) Do not use keypad. |
Control + Minus(-) Do not use keypad. |
| Konsole | Control + Mouse Wheel Scroll Up, or Control + Plus(+) |
Control + Mouse Wheel Scroll Down, or Control + Minus(-) |
| lilyterm | Control + Plus(+) Do not press Shift, or use keypad. |
Control + Minus(-) Do not use keypad. |
| xfce4-terminal | Right Click/Preferences/Appearance. No keyboard or mouse shortcut. | |
| lxterminal | Edit/Preferences/Style. No keyboard or mouse shortcut. | |
| mlterm | Control + Right click to bring up settings. Encoding tab/Font Size. No keyboard or mouse shortcut. | |
| kterm | Control + Right click to bring up font size menu. | |
| rxvt-unicode (urxvt) | Doable but archaic. Issue printf command inside terminal window. Eg: printf '\33]50;%s\007' "xft:DejaVu Sans Mono-8" |
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My next post aims to further reduce your eye strain by increasing the font size of virtual terminals.
9 comments:
Thanks for a well organized presentation! Very Very helpful.
Thanks for good info. Its really helped... :)
I am grateful to you and so are my eyes :)
Great post thanks! These changes are temporary. Any possibility of including information to make the changes permanent?
You are my hero!
Thanks!
thanx alot man!!
Very useful!
It seems in xfce4-terminal Ctrl+Shift+'+' and Ctrl+'-' also work as keyboard shortcuts now. Maybe worth trying and updating the table?
My eyes feel much better. Thanks for the great help.
thanks, been looking for my ubuntu on windows system to get the font bigger and the ctrl + scroll in has done it. makes it much beter on my eyes. from 6 font to 16 font. eyesaver you are!
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