[xcrysden] properties of fonts

[Gabriele Sclauzero]

Dear users,

     I want to increase the size of the fonts in the xcrysden GUI 
(buttons, menus). I succeeded by specifying a line like this:

*font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-

in the Xcrysden_defaults file. Anyway I'm not completely satisfied of 
the results, since the fonts are bigger but they look as they have a too 
thin body (I don't remember the technical word to say that...). Where 
can I learn all the possible options for this *font: definition here 
above (things like: available font series, sizes, shapes, "thickness", ...).
Is there a possibility to add an antialiasing options, in order to make 
those fonts to look smoother?

Another issue which came about after increasing the font size: the 
default window size happens to be a bit too small to accomodate all the 
buttons with the larger fonts, so that I have to resize it manually 
after starting xcrysden. Where and how do I specify my default window size?

Regards,

GS

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Gabriele Sclauzero, EPFL SB ITP CSEA
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