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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "6x13" font for gnome-terminal
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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:49:06 -0400
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At Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:35:07 -0400 James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "Allan" == Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> writes:
>
> Allan> ... I use what [the] 6x13 [bdf] font.
> Allan> Its [xlfd] name is
> Allan> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1
>
> Allan> Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use
> Allan> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1
>
> Yes, xft supports bitmap fonts and this one should be in the list.
>
> It can be a bit of work to get the right fontconfig name for a given
> xlfd name, so the best thing to do is to find the fonts.dir file that
> matches the xlfd to a filename, and find that same filename in the
> fonts.cache-1 file in that directory.

... [ very useful information snipped ]]

Thanks very much for the information,
allan
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