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

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

At Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:37:10 +0200 Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:

> 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.

Thank you all for these suggestions.
allan
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