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There is already a question on it: How to set line height in xterm? but I don't have the "points" to comment yet, so I have to ask it again.

Environment:

  • Ubuntu Jelly
  • i3wm
  • Xterm version 372
  • tmux

I've tried now those things in my .Xresources file (yes, I have reloaded it with xrdb -load .Xresources):

! Line height: ! XTerm.vt100.scaleHeight: 1.5 ! UXTerm*vt100.scaleHeight: 1.45 ! XTerm*vt100.scaleHeight: 1.45 XTerm*Shading: 1.45

None of them work with and without tmux. But if I start one with xterm -sh 1.45 it works.

How I can set the line height that it persists in my .Xresources?

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Lines beginning with ! are comments. Remove the ! from the XTerm entry.

You can see the current setup with xrdb -query.

e.g.

$ xrdb -query | grep -i xterm $ cat .Xresources XTerm.vt100.scaleHeight: 1.5 $ xrdb -load .Xresources $ xrdb -query | grep -i xterm XTerm.vt100.scaleHeight: 1.5
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  • Thank's @stephens Harris. I know that lines with ! in the beginning are comments. I've post them too, that people see my history of tries. The command you've provided I have already in the list, but it doesn't has worked. Commented Jan 13, 2024 at 12:40
  • Yoiur example had the scaleheight line commented out. You have a shading line that is uncommented. Commented Jan 13, 2024 at 12:44
  • Yes! You are absolutely right. The command XTerm.vt100.scaleHeight: 1.5 was my first try to set the line height. It doesn't worked, so I've commented it out. After that, I've tried UXTerm*vt100.scaleHeight: 1.45. It doesn't worked too, so I commented it out too. After that, I've tried XTerm*vt100.scaleHeight: 1.45. It doesn't worked too, so I commented it out too. After that, I've read in the article that I've post in my question the xterm -sh 1.45 command, wich has worked, but is not persistent. So, I've set XTerm*Shading: 1.45 in my .Xresources because it is it's equivalent, right? Commented Jan 13, 2024 at 13:22
  • Understand, the -sh is not shading. Man: scale line-height values by the given number. But why the command works, XTerm.vt100.scaleHeight: 1.5 not (if it is not commented out)? Commented Jan 13, 2024 at 13:28
  • This command works: XTerm*scaleHeight: 1.45. In regular Terminal - one step further. But it doesn't work, if I start tmux. Commented Jan 13, 2024 at 13:47
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In my case, the problem was first, the wrong XTerm commands and second, after I've got the right command for the XTerm line height, one (or both) of the tmux plugins tmux-resurrect and tmux-continuum doesn't use the line height.

Solution

  • First Step - XTerm:

    Put the following command in your .Xresources file:

    XTerm*scaleHeight: 1.45

  • Second Step - tmux:

    • Log out from tmux: lang-shell tmux detach
    • Kill all tmux processes: lang-shell pkill -f tmux

  • Third Step - Start on

    • Load .Xresources file: 
      xrdb -load .Xresources
    • Start tmux: 
      tmux

After this, in the whole terminal environment (XTerm, tmux, Neovim) the line height was correct ... in my case ^^

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