On Sunday 12 June 2016 20:15:08 Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > > If you go for medium or large font sizes, then using -fa / faceName and > > > an Xft name instead of -fn / font for an X11 fot is probably a good > > > idea: it gives anti-aliasing and the choice of fonts nowadays is > > > slightly larger. > > > > > > For small sizes, vectorial fonts gives poor results, better readability > > > is achieved with hand-drawn bitmap fonts. Too bad they can not have > > > anti-aliasing. > > > > If you are running a minimal system, then I can see the advantages of a > > more minimal terminal emulator. But if you are running a DE, what > > advantages does running xterm have over running one of the desktop > > related terminal emulators? > > What is the logical link between my message and this question?
The thread was about running xterm inside a DE by all sorts of complicated methods instead of simply clicking a couple of buttons in Konsole-Trinity! > I do not know what the benefit of running xterm in a desktop environment is > because I am still dumbfounded about what the benefit of running a desktop > environment is. ;-) :-) Thank you - that is rather what I suspected and answers my question!!! And a) I can very much see the point of not running a DE and b) I can see the point of configuring xterm rather than run a DE in order to run a more dependency-heavy terminal emulator! But I can't see the point in running a DE, and making heavy use of it, and then configuring xterm in this way. Unless one was already used to doing it, of course. I do plenty of things because it is how I have always done them - but then I know how to do them. Lisi
