Hi... In my suse 9.1 the xterm looks really small ... I want some fonts like verdana in font size of 12 and background color black and foreground white... Can u help me plz with the above options? I have tried but still i can;t do it..
Thxc

You can do it from the command line - eg my favoured settings are:

xterm -sb -fg grey -bg black -sl 500 -j -ls -fn 7x14 -fb 7x14bold

Or you can change your .Xdefaults file so that an xterm will always load with the desired settings.

See the man page for more details

Thx...and if i want to increase the font size? Also how i can change the font color

Command line or from Xdefaults?

Command line:

xterm -fg white gives white text

xterm -fg black gives black text

.Xdefaults
XTerm*foreground: white gives white text

And so on.

Changing font can also be done from both the CLI and .Xdefaults file. A useful app is xfontsel which will display all your fonts and their variables, so you can choose the exact one you want. It can take some playing around tho.

It's probably easier to look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias - this shows you the aliases for the default fonts. I personally use 7x14, which is an alias for the font:
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1

This is specified in .Xdefaults by:
XTerm*boldFont: 7x14bold
XTerm*font: 7x14

Or in the CLI by xterm -fn 7x14