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Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> writes:

On 06/12/2024 07:39 AM, Richmond wrote:

Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> writes:

My installation offers choice of GUI or Terminal.
Both are too small.
When working with something new I prefer terminal over GUIs.
The Terminal version is so small that menus can not be selected by
mouse click.

I suspect a missing or corrupt configuration file.
What is its name and where would it be found on a Debian Linux system?
TIA

The font size in a terminal is determined by the terminal. Which
terminal emulator are you using? In MATE Terminal you can increase the
font size by pressing ctrl-shift-+

MATE is my default and ctrl-shift-+ acts as expected. Applications->Accessories->GNU Emacs 24 (Terminal) launches with

/usr/bin/emacs24 -nw %F

It must be launching its own terminal emulator as ctrl-shift-+ has no
effect.

When I do that it launches MATE Terminal.

Try launching MATE Terminal first, and then run emacs with emacs -nw

You could also look at the process list and see what terminal is
running.

ps aux

Emacs isn't usually installed by default, but Debian 9 is rather old, I
can't even remember if I used it.
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