On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 15:43:39 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 1/6/2016 2:02 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote: >> Yes, but 50% linear increase is not negligible. > > Neither is wasting the other 50%.
It's not important other than the fact that my display might be a bit slower. But I'm not a g4m3rz, and any card will be more than fast enough to display my editor and such. Even I don't want a 25" laptop screen, but I wouldn't mind getting more content on my existing 17" (1920x1200). >> I was actually referring to my generic KDE fonts (Noto). I tried >> Cousine with emacs; it's both bigger (or at least more leading) and >> harder (for me) to read than the 6x10 bitmap font. > > Cousine is wider. It's intended to be a drop-in replacement for Courier New. Wider is not a feature for me. > Have you tried Ubuntu Mono? It's narrower with more traditional terminal > shapes than Cousine. Don't have it (I'm running openSUSE, not Ubuntu). -- Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
