How to change the default font size in X11?

You would create the .Xdefaults file in your home directory. There are also the .Xresouces fand.xinitrc files that can be used to control how X11 behaves.

You might want to check out Apples X11 mailing list at https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/x11-users for more information.

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I am quite interested about the subject of improving the font looks of XQuartz -let'sput our findings here http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/35320/are-there-any-ways-to-improve-the -font-rendering-in-x11-app-xquartz

I wonder. How would the moderators of StackExchange feel if we all go over there and start telling people to post over here? I bet they would delete our posts and cancel our accounts without a second thought.

You would be surprised to find out that is not like this, to get your account blocked you really need to do a lot of damage and posts are not removed unless they are illegal, and *always* it needs more than a person to delete something. That's a site managed by the community, not by some people put in place by a company.

It is always acceptable to link to external resources as long these resources do provide additional usefull information. Clearly the thread on that side contained much more information than the one here. I observed people linking from there to this forum, but it's not so common, and that's not due to the policy, just because here is more chat and less usefull information.... you will not see endless threads of replies on with "yes, I have the same problem" there.

Shortly, this is "discussions" and is quite different in approach than the SE model, where everythign is aimed towards getting the be answers UP and removing all the nonsense.

I wish that Apple would invest more in discussion, and going towards making this more practical.

I wouldn't know about getting accounts blocked. I have seen many posts that look (from a Google search) to be exactly what I want, only to find some moderator has shut it down as off-topic.

More importantly, Stack Exchange promotes a "just gimme da codes" approach that really doesn't help in the long run. I prefer a discussion format where you can actually talk about issues. There are far too many people who really don't understand how it works and then just get stuck when there is no one around to give them "da codes".

And, to be honest, that site is a competitor to this one. I have lots of points here, you have lots of points there. I think it is OK to provide answers in both, even including links to wherever the original idea came from. But I feel it is bad manners to just post a link from one forum to another forum without posting the actual answer too. Otherwise, when you go around on either forum resurrecting 7 month-old posts with nothing but a link to your own answer in the other forum, it seems like you are just trying to get more points for yourself in that other forum.

Maybe there are (young) people that do still have time to chase the points... but definetly not me.

I linked there because, after spending two longs hours, I was able to find a solution to this old problem. It is documented and I just wanted to save others time.

Outside our convesation, I want to add that it's quite tricky to manage an online community, probably the best term to describe it it would be nurture. For my academic work, I did some research regarding online communities, and learnt from different experiences. As a moderator is quite hard to do it right, meaning to educate people in the desired direction without risking on loosing existing or potential contributors.

The funny story is that my the best two examples are from SE as well, on the good side being the SO site and on the negative one the SF one. All of them do have policies but how they are implemented cam make such a big difference.