2017.10.02

Using CSSH/XTerm with a high-DPI display

Christopher Peterson Blog configuration, cssh, Linux, ssh, terminal

On my laptop with a QuadHD display, cssh was unusable

because X is a hundred years old and xterm (the default for cssh) defaults to bitmapped fonts which are tiny and gross.

So how do we them it to look like this instead?

Solution

This worked for me: just configure XTerm to use TrueType fonts!

! Drop this or something like it into
! ~/.Xresources

! to enable any changes to this configuration:
! xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

! Set front to truetype as the bitmap-based default fonts are dumb and
! tiny on high-DPI displays. Also wtf who wants bitmapped fonts
XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono
XTerm*faceSize: 8
XTerm*renderFont: true

! Drop this or something like it into

! ~/.Xresources

! to enable any changes to this configuration:

! xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

! Set front to truetype as the bitmap-based default fonts are dumb and

! tiny on high-DPI displays. Also wtf who wants bitmapped fonts

XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono

XTerm*faceSize: 8

XTerm*renderFont: true

And then configure cssh to a more appropriate size!

# Drop this or something like it into
# ~/.clusterssh/config

terminal_bg_style=dark
terminal_colorize=1
terminal_reserve_top=10
terminal_size=160x48

# Drop this or something like it into

# ~/.clusterssh/config

terminal_bg_style=dark

terminal_colorize=1

terminal_reserve_top=10

terminal_size=160x48

There you go. That’s so much nicer.