Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

On 2005-08-15 17:47:48 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Vincent Lefevre [Mon, Aug 15 2005, 04:35:01PM]: > > On 2005-08-15 15:53:29 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > More useable fonts gets you "fc-list | grep Mono" > > > > Or "fc-match --sort Mono". > > I don't think so. It shows a lot o

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

On 2005-08-15 17:20:16 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Vincent Lefevre: > > On 2005-08-15 10:56:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Fiddling with the DPI setting can cause weird font display. > > > > No, this can just cause the font to be slightly larger or smaller. > > This can be seen as a zoom f

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

#include * Vincent Lefevre [Mon, Aug 15 2005, 04:35:01PM]: > On 2005-08-15 15:53:29 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > More useable fonts gets you "fc-list | grep Mono" > > Or "fc-match --sort Mono". I don't think so. It shows a lot of fonts which are not pure monospace, if useable at all, eg. Tahom

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

Vincent Lefevre: > On 2005-08-15 10:56:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Fiddling with the DPI setting can cause weird font display. > > No, this can just cause the font to be slightly larger or smaller. > This can be seen as a zoom factor for the fonts. Ok. I thought maybe this resizing screws

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

On 2005-08-15 15:53:29 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > More useable fonts gets you "fc-list | grep Mono" Or "fc-match --sort Mono". -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - compute

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

#include * Kumar Appaiah [Mon, Aug 15 2005, 07:46:35AM]: > On 8/14/05, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera" -fs 8 > > This is a great setting! Thank you very much! And if it draws to slow for your liking: urxvt -fn 'xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8' Mo

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

#include * Jochen Schulz [Mon, Aug 15 2005, 10:56:37AM]: > Vincent Lefevre: > > On 2005-08-14 17:47:12 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > Fiddling with the DPI setting can cause weird font display. The > "correct" solution would be to find out the real value for your monitor > and resolution. Yo

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

On 2005-08-15 10:56:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Fiddling with the DPI setting can cause weird font display. No, this can just cause the font to be slightly larger or smaller. This can be seen as a zoom factor for the fonts. > The "correct" solution would be to find out the real value for you

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

Vincent Lefevre: > On 2005-08-14 17:47:12 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > I don't agree but size 8 is way to small on my display anyway. There is > > always a tradeoff between screen usage and legibility and most of the > > time I prefer the latter. > > In fact, I remember that the real size

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

On 8/14/05, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera" -fs 8 This is a great setting! Thank you very much! Kumar

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

On 2005-08-14 17:47:12 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Vincent Lefevre: > > The fonts "fixed" and Bitstream Vera Monospace size 8 are OK for that, > > but with BVM size 8, the accented characters look strange. > > I don't agree but size 8 is way to small on my display anyway. There is > always a tra

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

Vincent Lefevre: > On 2005-08-14 15:18:43 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > The Monospace font looks good with at least size 9 on my screen (14" > > laptop, 1024x768). > > Ditto here. Unfortunately, with size 9, two side-to-side xterm's don't > fit on my screen (and 3 side-to-side xterm's don't f

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

On 2005-08-14 15:18:43 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > But I don't understand, why anyone on the world would want a > proportional font in a terminal anyway. If you use "Bitstream Vera > Monospace", you get a much better result. I agree. > The Monospace font looks good with at least size 9 on my sc

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

Vincent Lefevre: > On 2005-08-14 02:41:18 +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote: > > On Saturday 13 August 2005 20.46, Tom wrote: > > > > > I once read something like "xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans" -fs 12", > > With that, a 80-column xterm doesn't fit on my screen!!! It doesn't fit on my screen either. Bu

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

On 2005-08-14 02:41:18 +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Saturday 13 August 2005 20.46, Tom wrote: > > I once read something like "xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans" -fs 12", With that, a 80-column xterm doesn't fit on my screen!!! (Perhaps because of some Unicode characters, that are very large...)

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

On Saturday 13 August 2005 20.46, Tom wrote: > [13/08/2005 -- 20:27u] Kumar Appaiah: > > The Bitstreat Vera fonts work pretty well in all graphical > > applications, but I am not able to get it on my konsole or XTerm. In > > Konsole, it displays the sampkle in the selection dialog box, but I > > am

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

[13/08/2005 -- 20:27u] Kumar Appaiah: > The Bitstreat Vera fonts work pretty well in all graphical > applications, but I am not able to get it on my konsole or XTerm. In > Konsole, it displays the sampkle in the selection dialog box, but I am > not able to get it on the screen. > > Could you help