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At Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:37:10 +0200 Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl> wrote: |
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> Oscar Carlsson schreef: |
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>> Saturday 23 July 2005 00.24 skrev Allan Gottlieb: |
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>>>All my screens are 1600x1200 pixels. |
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>>> |
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>>>Several are reasonably large (~20 inch) lcds and I use what emacs |
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>>>calls a 6x13 font. Its real name is |
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>>>-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 |
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>>>This permits 3 side by side windows (frames in emacs) of 81 columns. |
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>>> |
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>>>I have tried every fixed-width frame I found in the list given for |
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>>>gnome-terminal and cannot find one this size. |
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>>> |
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>>>Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use |
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>>>-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 |
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>>>or, even better, tell gnome to make this font available on the menus? |
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>>> |
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>> I think gnome-terminal only can handle xft-fonts (and that's probably a |
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>> feature)... |
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>> Have you considered trying some older (and not so user friendly) terminal? |
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>> rxvt, xterm, urxvt and aterm are all pretty nice, memory efficent and fast, |
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>> and you can do everything in them that you could in gnome-terminal (well, |
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>> almost) :-) |
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> I think Oscar is right (about gnome-terminal only supporting XFT fonts). |
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> For another suggestion for an alternate, you might consider |
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> multi-gnome-terminal (emerge multi-gnome-terminal) |
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> which is "based" on gnome-terminal, and has many more features (like |
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> session saving and history saving per terminal tab), despite being |
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> GTK-based rather than GTK2-based. |
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> I've just checked, and it does definitely accept font specifications in |
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> the form of -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*-r-* , so it |
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> might be more like what you're looking for. It's not quite perfect, but |
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> it's pretty close. |
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Thank you all for these suggestions. |
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allan |
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