How to make terminal emulators usable on a HiRes screen

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On Debian Stretch with a 3200×1800 screen, using Cinnamon desktop, the interface size is on a nice scale.

However, I was used to work with xterm as a terminal. The problem: the window appears ridiculously small on my screen. Same thing with rxvt.

So now, I use gnome-terminal which works pretty well, but I don't like it that much.

How can I make terminal emulators usable on a high resolution screen?

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For xterm, load these resources into your X server (some desktop environments do that automatically from the ~/.Xresources file upon login) so it applies to all applications of class XTerm connecting to it from any machine:

XTerm.VT100.faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono
XTerm.VT100.faceSize: 20
XTerm.SimpleMenu*font: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--24-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
XTerm.SimpleMenu.menuLabel.font: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--34-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*

Adjust to taste.

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In short, you want something like

xrandr --output LVDS --scale 1.28x1.28

(replacing LVDS with the desired output name, as seen in the output of running xrandr by itself).

Give it a try. Some sites said that this doesn't work on some systems that are using KMS (kernel mode setting); if so, that's a bug that's hopefully fixed. See these links for some more info on using xrandr to scale a screen like this:

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