Damon Muller wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Although I love by debian system, I must face the reality that X is > designed for and by people with big, expensive, ultra-high resolution > monitors. While environments like GNOME and WindowMaker leave MS Windoze > for dead, functionality and looks wise, if you run them at anything less > than 1024x768 you loose most of your screen real estate to wharfs and > docs and panels and such-like. Unfortunately, when you are a poor > student, such as myself (and presumably many of us here), with a crappy > little 15" monitor, some of the fonts can end up being just a bit too > small. > > What I am seeking is a fixed-width font that is nice and viewable > (without having to bold) on a 15" monitor at 1024x768. Part of the > problem is that, because style should win over substance every time, > many of the fonts (such as misc/fixed) get lost when viewed in a > transparent term over a background picture. This is mainly for use > reading mail in mutt in a transparent (tinted) Eterm (I'm sure I'm not > the only one on the list who spends a large percentage of their time in > front of a computer merely reading and writing email). > > I have found one font that I like which works quite well for my needs, > except that it is in the VGA (what I would have called ANSI back in my > BBSing days) character set. While this is fine for most purposes, it > mangles quite a few different foreign characters, and leaves me not able > to use the graphical thread characters in mutt. > > I realise it's my own stupid fault for trying to have a cool looking > desktop without a 21" monitor (I have 17" at work and have no such font > problems there), but I was hoping someone out there in debian land might > have encountered a similar problem and found a solutions. ------------------------------------------------------------- I too have had a similar situation but it is because I have very poor eyesight and do not intend to damage it more, by using hard to see visuals. You should search the debian archives for the font deuglification messages. They will guide you to a solution for this problem. see: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html also -- AdVance-Computing Systems
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