Set xterm dimensions using Apple's X11 terminal

Mar 09, '04 10:10:00AM

Contributed by: miker71

I'd been looking to replace my use of terminal.app with X11/xterm, since I often find my self running X11 apps on remote hosts. But I couldn't find a preference to set the xterm dimensions -- I'm used to a minimum of 132 columns and manually resizing the xterm window at each launch finally drove me to find out how to do it. Launch X11, then select Applications -> Customize. The X11 Application Menu should have an entry something like:

Terminal     |     xterm     |     n
Double-click the xterm command field and simply add the -geometry parameter. The following will set 132 columns x 50 rows for the initial and subsequent xterms:
 xterm -geometry 132x50 
You can read about other parameters for xterm in the man page from within xterm itself via man xterm.

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