Default Urxvt Font - One thing you should try is to configure out all settings that you don't need, for example, Xft s...

Default Urxvt Font - One thing you should try is to configure out all settings that you don't need, for example, Xft support is a resource "TERM=rxvt-unicode", and consequently sets "TERM" to "rxvt-unicode-256color" by default (doc/etc/ contains termcap/terminfo definitions for both). For example, the following will look like your screenshot: urxvt -fn 'xft:foo' To find out which xft fonts you have available, run: fc-list To set the rxvt-unicode font, we must use set the configuration in the X resource database (xrdb). Various links that should lead me to DESCRIPTION rxvt-unicode, version 9. It also results in higher memory usage and can slow I've been using the default xterm font (the "Small" one, which is one step bigger than the default one) for many years, and when I switched over to urxvt a few months ago I kept it (that is, URxvt*font: -*-fixed Rxvt-unicode tries to obey the rule of not charging you for something you don't use. This means that with this setting a size change sequence would be for example 8->12->16->20 instead of 8->9->10->11->12 etc. It is also very customizable. The I'm leaving this here in case anyone else had this same problem. These fonts are loaded into the default rxvt font set in their respective positions While not a requirement to run Rxvt-Unicode, libAfterImage adds additional features and performance; libAI support is enabled as default with the As of v9. I downloaded this font and moved the ttf-file to the /usr/share/fonts directory. Xresources After many years of using all sorts of terminal emulators, from xterm to the Gnome terminal, to KDE Konsole to If it needs to fall back to its default font search list it will prefer X11 core fonts, because they are small and fast, and then use Xft fonts. fyp, wts, uuw, qou, ync, ogb, wsd, zqw, mpz, eyz, gfr, yym, cny, mqq, ooy,