On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 07:32:21AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > chris wrote: > > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 06:54:48PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 10:43:47PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > > I am always hitting this issue, the current fonts available by default > > > > in standard Linux repositories for xvile are generally horrible. Does > > > > anyone here have any nice ones, or can anyone point me at some nice > > > > ones. > > > > > > There's two sets of fonts in the default menu for xvile. > > > The first looks like the bitmap fonts used for xterm, > > > while the other is b&h lucidatypewriter -- > > > > > > you might find this as > > > bitmap-lucida-typewriter-fonts > > > or > > > xfonts-100dpi > > > xfonts-75dpi > > > > > Yes, I have all of those, I was just hoping/wondering if anyone has > > created different/better bitmap fonts. They're OK[ish] on my desktop > > machine but I can't find anything that is really comfortable to use on > > my laptop. > > I haven't thought about fonts in a long time. Is it the case that > xvile can't use the same fonts that xterm uses? I don't use xvile, > but I'm pretty happy with my fixed xterm fonts. > xvile is stuck with the old and rarely renewed/maintained fixed bitmap fonts in /etc/X11/fonts whereas vile can use all of the standard terminal fonts to be found in /usr/share/fonts. I'm not sure if xterm can use the 'ordinary' system fonts in the same way that other terminal emulators can, I use the default xfce4-terminal that comes with the xubuntu distribution that I use and that shows me dozens (if not hundreds) of different fonts to choose from.
-- Chris Green
