Is there any way to change the font size of terminal window(GNOME or KDE) from inside a shell script
Actually I want to display a file in a particular format on screens of all sizes.
Can i do it using scripts??
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I for one would surely not want a shell script (or any other program for that matter) to change my terminal settings! If it were to find a way to do so, I would use it exactly once and them remove it from my machine.
Seriously: This is something you should not do, because the user will probably have set his or her screen size to the way it is for a reason that is probably better than yours for changing it. Consider handicapped people who might need a specific font or very large letters to be able to read the screen at all.
Better try and make your application suitable for any terminal layout - there are variables for telling you how many characters wide and how many lines high your current environment is.
Daniel Schneller
2009-06-15 14:10:48
Did he ask if he should do it, or how to do it?
BryanH
2009-06-15 14:31:00
Sometimes looking at things from a different angle helps, so I wrote this answer. I usually appreciate constructive criticism - so I offered some here.
Daniel Schneller
2009-06-15 15:59:25
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For KDE, you can use dcop to set your font size.
For example:
dcop konsole-8540 session-6 setFont Monospace,20,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
(the 20 in the example above is the font size)
BryanH
2009-06-15 14:29:43