Update:

What a foolish answer the past! The key is in how does xterm
gives sizes to its fonts. It's easy to workaround.

Greetings,

Lucio.


On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Lucio Lastra <luciolas...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> I tried resizing the window but the fonts remain the same.
> I don't know if it can be changed or set up in a way it matches
> your resolution. You should look for a Sage developer, he/she
> probably know the answer.
>
> If you find the answer please write me back so I can fix it if
> possible.
>
> By the way if you are not going to work in "notebook()" mode
> I recommend you to exit to bash and work from there since you
> don't have any resolution issues there.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Lucio.
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Lucio,
>>
>> In fluxbox, choose Sage off the menu.  On a 1920x1240 (or so)
>> widescreen laptop, the terminal window might only use about 640x480
>> (or less?).  it looks pretty tiny and then the fonts are barely
>> legible.
>>
>> You can still read everything, but it would get old pretty quick.  And
>> I couldn't see a way to expand the window where Sage was running along
>> with the fonts.  At boot everything is fine.
>>
>> Thanks for your work on this - I'm looking forward to the next
>> version!
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On May 15, 8:53 pm, Lucio Lastra <luciolas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Rob,
>> >
>> > the only issue that remains is the resolution you talked about.
>> >
>> > When does it happen, at boot or during your sagelwlcd under fluxbox?
>> >
>> > Greetings,
>> >
>> > Lucio.
>> >
>> > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Lucio Lastra <luciolas...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > Hi Rob,
>> >
>> > > I tried and already can add a "POWER OFF" option and "EXIT"
>> > > will be quit fluxbox as now.
>> >
>> > > I'm thinking on "startupmanager" to load a boot splash that
>> > > hides the details on startup and insulates more the users. But
>> > > have to measure how it performs with it. I'm also researching
>> > > automate startx. Adding "startx" at the end of
>> > > "/etc/init.d/rc.local" didn't work.
>> >
>> > > Do you think removing bluetooth would be too much?
>> >
>> > > Greetings,
>> >
>> > > Lucio.
>> >
>> > > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> > >> Lucio,
>> >
>> > >> Sounds good.  When you "EXIT" fluxbox maybe this is a way to initiate
>> > >> a shutdown:
>> >
>> > >> In KUbuntu w/ KDE3 I use the file   /etc/kde3/kdm/Xreset  to run some
>> > >> commands when logging out of an X session, and maybe you could
>> > >> initiate a shutdown from there?
>> >
>> > >> Or maybe what would be best is to keep "EXIT" as is, and add a "POWER
>> > >> OFF" menu item to the fluxbox menu?  That way an "EXIT" could drop
>> > >> somebody into bash if they desire to.
>> >
>> > >> In any event - the more you can insulate somebody from any Linux
>> > >> commands, with a direct route in/out of Sage, I think the more
>> > >> successful this will be in introducing folks to Sage.
>> >
>> > >> Thanks for the great work on this and sorry for the panic on the one
>> > >> bad machine.
>> >
>> > >> Rob
>> >>
>>
>

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