Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AS> i found xfontsel and found a font i like (looks great in the AS> preview in xfontsel) but when i tell Eterm to use it, the spacing AS> between the characters is *huge* making the term nearly as wide as AS> my entire screen. since the main point of doing this is to get AS> smaller terms on my screen that are still pretty ... it renders AS> this pretty much useless. AS> AS> does anyone know how i can do this? AS> AS> the fonts i'm trying to use which looks great under xfontsel is: AS> AS> -adobe-utopia-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* AS> -bitstream-charter-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
There's a couple of problems with using these two fonts as terminal fonts: -- Both are proportionally spaced, and your terminal program will probably fail to deal well. My guess is that you get intercharacter spacing equal to the widest character in the font (more likely than not a capital M). -- You haven't specified bold/medium, which is a generally good attribute to keep track of. -- You haven't specified a size at all, so you're getting whatever your X server thinks the default size is. If I were going to use Charter, I'd use a font descriptor that looked more like -bitstream-charter-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 (specify weight, point size, and character set). When I need small readable terminal windows, though, I generally use one of the small bitmapped fonts, either 5x7 or 5x8. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?" "Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
