From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxL96-0003X6-F4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:50:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6Q8njg4025781; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:49:45 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6Q8jxN6000124 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:46:00 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id v1so608334nzb for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:46:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=fS+0tYjRhh//We7SAWsAQCxgguEGUOoArw4AqN45biTeGwc1VBlbvBTz5xEct9RqJXnJtusKasMtMTPmxdVXaWf1+sHOlKHhNL/Vj2aXnchiIs7m4ZOXLrrQFgFu44jswTjqyhnkv3la7RPvBrUUkjr+u1HLFX2YyLPBDtTr/Eg= Received: by 10.36.252.28 with SMTP id z28mr139935nzh; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pirate ([81.226.148.64]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 10sm5064917nzo.2005.07.26.01.46.04; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:46:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Oscar Carlsson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "6x13" font for gnome-terminal Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:46:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507261046.01947.monotux@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ebbfc03c-aaf2-49c7-9730-f34fd0714aa0 X-Archives-Hash: 437232174673eb25e288c3d48e0b0143 I think gnome-terminal only can handle xft-fonts (and that's probably a feature)... Have you considered trying some older (and not so user friendly) terminal? rxvt, xterm, urxvt and aterm are all pretty nice, memory efficent and fast, and you can do everything in them that you could in gnome-terminal (well, almost) :-) Oscar Saturday 23 July 2005 00.24 skrev Allan Gottlieb: > All my screens are 1600x1200 pixels. > > Several are reasonably large (~20 inch) lcds and I use what emacs > calls a 6x13 font. Its real name is > -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 > > This permits 3 side by side windows (frames in emacs) of 81 columns. > > I have tried every fixed-width frame I found in the list given for > gnome-terminal and cannot find one this size. > > Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use > -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 > or, even better, tell gnome to make this font available on the menus? > > thanks, > allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list