Vincent Lefevre: > On 2005-08-14 02:41:18 +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote: > > On Saturday 13 August 2005 20.46, Tom wrote: > > > > > I once read something like "xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans" -fs 12", > > With that, a 80-column xterm doesn't fit on my screen!!!
It doesn't fit on my screen either. But I don't understand, why anyone
on the world would want a proportional font in a terminal anyway. If you
use "Bitstream Vera Monospace", you get a much better result.
> > > but in terminals, I seem to prefer fonts that aren't anti-aliased.
>
> Me too, though the problem isn't the fact that they are anti-aliased,
> but they aren't designed for small sizes (it's more bitmap fonts vs
> outline fonts).
The Monospace font looks good with at least size 9 on my screen (14"
laptop, 1024x768). But I don't recommend using TrueType fonts with xterm
anyway. Instead, I am using xfce4-terminal (not in stable,
unfortunately) with Bitstream Vera Monospace size 10. The antialiasing
is done much better and you can disallow bold fonts to be printed (the
same as xterm's '+bdc' switch which doesn't work for TrueType fonts for
a reason unknown to me).
J.
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