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 1DxMsV-0002HD-Sk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:41:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6QAeihM032675; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:40:44 GMT Received: from smtp13.wxs.nl (smtp13.wxs.nl [195.121.6.27]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6QAbHEG005257 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:37:17 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by smtp13.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IK800BO9DI24G@smtp13.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:37:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:37:10 +0200 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "6x13" font for gnome-terminal In-reply-to: <200507261046.01947.monotux@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <42E61256.10907@planet.nl> 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 X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050723) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <200507261046.01947.monotux@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b7adab80-71fb-4677-83c8-04f00ae424b0 X-Archives-Hash: e6ae34c5151a383875df8dfd838a77a1 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list