Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 04:22:16PM +0100, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:36:15PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Did you try terminus? It's available as console and X11 font and last > > > time I tried it looked equally well in both modes. > > > > yes, since their first apparence in debian stable. I agree that they > > look very similar in X and in console (the difference is only due to > > resolution, refresh rate, brightness and contrast, I suppose). > > > > But unfortunately my eyes disagree about the "well" part. > > For console/term apps on X, I use mrxvt and here is my .mrxvtrc: > > Mrxvt.xft: true > Mrxvt.xftAntialias: true > Mrxvt.xftAutoHint: true > #Mrxvt.xftFont: bitstream vera sans mono > Mrxvt.xftFont: dejavu sans mono > Mrxvt.xftWeight: medium > Mrxvt.xftWidth: normal > Mrxvt.xftSize: 12 > Mrxvt.background: #F6E7CF > Mrxvt.showMenu: true > > so on my screen (1600x1200 @ 75 Hz), I use 12-pt dejavu sans mono > medium.
I believe that's my resolution (19" (inside, diagonal) IBM P200). > However, 95% of what I do, I do from non-X console. In fact, I can do > 95% of what I do on any slow computer on which I can install > Linux/OpenBSD. Just to help the OP, I do most of what I do in X, but most of what I do is text based apps (mutt, slrn, bash, perl, emacs, ...) and these are my mrxvt entries in .Xresources (instead of ~/.mrx*): mrxvt*foreground: wheat mrxvt*background: gray90 mrxvt*initTermNumber: 1 mrxvt*initProfileList: 2 mrxvt.geometry: 105x57 mrxvt.font: -*-*-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 > Often, I access one of my computers from a real DEC VT220 (white on My first (programming job) employer sat me down to an orange on black gas plasma version of that. I should sue. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
