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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "6x13" font for gnome-terminal
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:53:44
Message-Id: yu98xywm2cd.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: "6x13" font for gnome-terminal by James Cloos
1 At Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:35:07 -0400 James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 >>>>>> "Allan" == Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> writes:
4 >
5 > Allan> ... I use what [the] 6x13 [bdf] font.
6 > Allan> Its [xlfd] name is
7 > Allan> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1
8 >
9 > Allan> Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use
10 > Allan> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1
11 >
12 > Yes, xft supports bitmap fonts and this one should be in the list.
13 >
14 > It can be a bit of work to get the right fontconfig name for a given
15 > xlfd name, so the best thing to do is to find the fonts.dir file that
16 > matches the xlfd to a filename, and find that same filename in the
17 > fonts.cache-1 file in that directory.
18
19 ... [ very useful information snipped ]]
20
21 Thanks very much for the information,
22 allan
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