On 10/30/05, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > I have installed Ubuntu 5.10 on my Thinkpad to try it. An interesting
> > thing happened with the terminal app. and its fonts. On my Fedora
> > Core 3 system, I use gnome-terminal and font "Bitstream Vera Sans
> > Mono". This gives me distinctive letter shapes for 1l| (number one,
> > letter el, pipe symbol) and also for 0O (number zero, capital Oh).
> > The zero has a small horizontal bar in its center, the Oh is plain.
>
> I use the terminus fonts myself. You should be able to simply install
> them on the Ubuntu system:
>
> p console-terminus - Fixed-width fonts for fast reading on
> the
> i xfonts-terminus - Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
> i xfonts-terminus-dos - Fixed-width fonts for DOS encodings
> p xfonts-terminus-oblique - Oblique version of the Terminus font
>
> The a comes in two forms: a courier style a, and the original a. I find
> the original a to look too much like an o for quick reading, so I stick
> with the courier-style. The 0 has a nice diagonal slash through it, the
> way the 0 was supposed to be.
OK, I find that Ubuntu came with console-terminus installed, and I
used Synaptic to install xfonts-terminus, just in case that was
useful.
Then after some Google groping, I found a potentially useful magic command line:
# dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
and chose "use bitmapped fonts". This seems to have no effect on what
fonts are available to gnome-terminal at the Edit-> Current Profile
window. What am I missing now?
Aha. Have to kill the current Gnome-terminal session and start it up again.
That's what I was missing.
carl
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