At Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:37:10 +0200 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- [email protected] mailing list
