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 1DxdEd-0006UQ-47 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:09:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6R47rNA021703; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:07:53 GMT Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.140.230]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6R42rfx019946 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:02:54 GMT Received: from localhost.localdomain (ool-4355e59d.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.229.157]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j6R42vPq015233 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:03:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 418FD543D6; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:02:52 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "6x13" font for gnome-terminal References: <200507261046.01947.monotux@gmail.com> <42E61256.10907@planet.nl> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:02:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42E61256.10907@planet.nl> (Holly Bostick's message of "Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:37:10 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 0e5a0e1d-22c8-4a33-8142-5352a9755472 X-Archives-Hash: 9feea4ce1543d7457d08d70a58bd4980 At Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:37:10 +0200 Holly Bostick 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list