Re: [gentoo-user] "6x13" font for gnome-terminal

[Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>]

Oscar Carlsson schreef:
> 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?
>>
> 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) :-)

I think Oscar is right (about gnome-terminal only supporting XFT fonts).

For another suggestion for an alternate, you might consider

multi-gnome-terminal (emerge multi-gnome-terminal)

which is "based" on gnome-terminal, and has many more features (like
session saving and history saving per terminal tab), despite being
GTK-based rather than GTK2-based.

I've just checked, and it does definitely accept font specifications in
the form of -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*-r-* , so it
might be more like what you're looking for. It's not quite perfect, but
it's pretty close.

Holly

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