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Hi.
I need to run old full-screen text-mode application under X-Windows. (By the way it is touch-screen calibrator firmware). The screen resolution is to be 1280x1024 exactly. The program expect text-mode geometry 80x25. Running xterm (no window manager) I have adjusted the font pararameters to the wanted width, but I cannot find the font or its size to make xterm so long in height (I always had about 2.5 sm free space in the bottom).
Can anybody tell the way (switch, font ?) to make a xterm window be 1280x1024 and place 80x25 symbols?
Can I using some font editor open some font and increase a little its character height? It doesn't how ugly the font will appear.
Give me advice, please!

Mi6

What os are you using? Did you try "-geometry 1280x1040+0+0"?

>What os are you using? Did you try "-geometry 1280x1040+0+0"?

I'm using the latest verisons of Debian. But the question is not depented to os, isn't it?

No I haven't try this option exactly as you wrote. I will do it soon, but I don't belive in success with it: I suppose as the window will be sized to 1280x1024 in pixels it will got wrong size in character (not 80x25).

Logicaly the parameters must hold at least 4 meaning numeric parameters: 1024, 1280, 25, 80, or (may be) at last 1024, 1280 and a font specification.

NB As I investigate the X always locate xterm to the right upper conner when its window is bi enough, so "+0+0" not needed.

Mi6

You don't think that all os's have the same version of X, do you? As one example, Solaris has showfont, HP-UX does not. Another example, Solaris xterm is 6.4, HP-UX xterm is 6.3. Both have dtterm. HP-UX has hpterm I only see xterm on Redhat.

You're right, the option will only lock the window at the size you want. The only way to control character size is by specifying a font.