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It used to be that Ctrl + - and Ctrl + + would increase or decrease the text size of the terminal in earlier versions of Ubuntu, which is helpful when you're giving presentations and want to show your code in a larger size. I switched to Xubuntu 12.04, and I'm missing these keyboard shortcuts.

Is there an alternative I can use? Or if not, is there a way I can define my own shortcut to replace these?

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The shortcuts you mention are for gnome-terminal, the default terminal used by gnome (and, what follows, by standard Ubuntu). XFCE, which is the main environment in Xubuntu, has its own terminal implementation. However, as far as I can tell, it is not possible in xfce4-terminal to change the font size with a shortcut (you can see the list of possible shortcuts when you go to Edit->Preferences->Shortcuts).

If you rely on this feature, you can install gnome-terminal, but since the whole point of using XFCE is often that it does not involve the somewhat heavy Gnome libraries, this might be a little unproductive.

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Thanks for the answer. How disappointing, though! :( – John Feminella Oct 8 '12 at 15:00
Well, XFCE is supposed to be lean and fast, so naturally they had to give up on features. – January Oct 8 '12 at 15:02

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