2010-09-16 19:30:41 +00:00
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[[!meta title="How to change the font in urxvt (rxvt-unicode) dynamically"]]
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2010-09-16 19:29:04 +00:00
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After [[I had a look at some fonts for terminal emulators|published-xorg-terminal-emulator-fonts]],
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I chose some of the fonts to be used for my terminal.
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[rxvt-unicode](http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html) has excellent support for
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dynamic font changes, as described
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2010-09-16 19:33:37 +00:00
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in the [urxvt faq](http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.pod#Can_I_switch_the_fonts_at_runtime).
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2010-09-16 19:29:04 +00:00
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I decided to write a tiny script around the printf call
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named [urxvt-font-change](http://git.schottelius.org/?p=nsbin;a=commit;h=c0e8fa882655867abf5f6359bdff9498c02bf717).
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2010-09-16 19:33:37 +00:00
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This resulted in a clean [[.Xresources|configs/dot-Xresources]] file, which allows me to change the font
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2010-09-16 19:29:04 +00:00
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using ***Control-Alt-{1-6,0}***.
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[[!tag unix]]
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