On 2005-08-14 17:47:12 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Vincent Lefevre: > > The fonts "fixed" and Bitstream Vera Monospace size 8 are OK for that, > > but with BVM size 8, the accented characters look strange. > > I don't agree but size 8 is way to small on my display anyway. There is > always a tradeoff between screen usage and legibility and most of the > time I prefer the latter.
In fact, I remember that the real size also depends on the DPI. I have the following in my .Xresources file: ! 88 is the right value so that the 8pt monospace font in gnome-terminal ! has the same width as the 8pt-10pt bitmap fixed font. 96 is too much. Xft.dpi: 88 Why 8pt? Because this is the smallest font size I can select in gnome-terminal for some fonts. If I use something more than 88, I can't select fonts that are small enough to put two terminals side by side on my PowerBook. Perhaps I could get used to the ugly accented characters, but the comma is even worse: it is just a small vertical bar. > > With xterm, I can use the font "fixed", but selection in xterm is > > buggy (e.g. when using screen). With gnome-terminal, I can't use > > the font "fixed". > > You can. Just 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig' and answer 'Yes' to the > last question (something about bitmap fonts). No, it allows to select the font "fixed", but doesn't use the *real* font "fixed". I think this is bug 264993. > And as I already mentioned: if you like gnome-terminal I don't like it very much, due to the font problems and because it doesn't honour some of my xmodmap settings. There are other problems when I want to use it with a shell: it uses the UTF-8 encoding in UTF-8 locales (not configurable) and it selects TERM=xterm, so that "tput enacs" fails, though it supports the ACS. The main advantage over xterm is that it doesn't lose the primary selection as soon as it is no longer visible. I searched for other terminals in the past, but all of them were worse. > (and are prepared to run a non-sarge system), No problem for me. > you are problably better off using xce4-terminal. Where can I find it? "apt-file search xce4-terminal" doesn't return anything. > Startup time is significantly shorter on my machine and it offers > all the features you are used to from gnome-terminal. If it doesn't have the problems of gnome-terminal, and supports different encodings (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 at least), and if copy-paste doesn't suck, then this should be OK. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
