>>>>> "Allan" == Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Allan> ... I use what [the] 6x13 [bdf] font. Allan> Its [xlfd] name is Allan> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 Allan> Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use Allan> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 Yes, xft supports bitmap fonts and this one should be in the list. It can be a bit of work to get the right fontconfig name for a given xlfd name, so the best thing to do is to find the fonts.dir file that matches the xlfd to a filename, and find that same filename in the fonts.cache-1 file in that directory. The font you want is in /usr/share/fonts/misc/6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz and that matches this line in /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts-cache-1: ,---- | "6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz" 0 "Fixed-12:style=SemiCondensed:slant=0: | weight=100:width=87:pixelsize=13:spacing=110:foundry=Misc: | antialias=False:index=0:outline=False:scalable=False:dpi=75: | charset= |>^1!|>^1!|>^1!P0oWQ |>^1!|>^1!|>^1!: | lang=aa|...long-list...|zu: | fontversion=0:fontformat=PCF" `---- I've manually broken that to fit in 80 cols, and elided the full list of the lang attribute. This means that the string from Fixed to PCF is the full fontconfig name. In practice you can leave out a lot of that. This should let you view the font: :; xfd -fa 'Fixed-12:style=semicondensed:pixelsize=13:foundry=misc' the equivalent invocation for that font as a server-side font is: :; xfd -fn -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 To get gnome-terminal to use that font you may need to manually edit the gconf file. I'd first make a named profile in gnome-terminal's edit current profile dialog (from the right-click menu), and then look for that profile's name in: ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/ The default profile is named Default, and its gconf file is: ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/%gconf.xml In that file, look for: <entry name="font" and put the fontconfig name in the <stringvalue> container w/in that entry. There is also an x_font entry that appears to take an xlfd, so I'd change that, too. Depending on your dpi setting, you might even get lucky by using g-t's dialog to choose Fixed, style=semicondensed and one of the offered point sizes. On my 133dpi screen -- with X actually using that dpi -- I was unable to get the dialog to match 6x13. As an alternative, you can try Vera Mono or DevaVu Mono; they have about the same aspect ratio as the bdf fixed fonts and look as good if you have freetype installed w/o bindist in USE. Ie, when using the bycode interpreter, the hinting leaves the stems sharp and adds just a hint of smoothing to the curves and diagonals. It looks especially sweet on an LCD w/ fontconfig setup w/ rgba. -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jhcloos.com> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
