Re: fonts

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Salut Florin.

I have had those kind of prb... but, my solution is to use the rxvt 
terminal. it's so nice and can endup with more than 4 terminals on your 
screen at higher resolutions. and is so customizable and some nice 
features I like and couldn't found them at the gnome's default terminal.

Florin Andrei wrote:

>On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 06:45, Bob Tennent wrote:
>  
>
>>Putting :unscaled font directories first, followed by outline-font
>>directories, followed by (scaling) bitmap font directories in the font
>>path will improve rendering. I have no idea what comes out of the box
>>    
>>
>
>Speaking of that, i have a little annoying problem.
>It's small indeed, but annoying also.
>
>With RH 7.2, gnome-terminal could be configured regarding the fonts so
>that the size of the default 80x25 window was almost exactly 1/4 of the
>size of my 1024x768 screen. That allowed me to have 4 non-overlapping
>non-resized terminals, or 2 non-overlapping vertically maximized ones.
>I'm not sure if that was the default font in 7.2 terminal, or if it
>needed a small amount of tweaking.
>
>Anyway, in 7.3, by default the terminal is slightly bigger (because the
>font has larger characters). If i copy/paste the gnome-terminal
>configuration from 7.2, nothing changes. If i start tweaking it, and
>picking odd fonts and font sizes, i get all kind of weird looking
>terminals, but nothing matches the old behaviour: a terminal that's 1/4
>of my screen.
>And believe me, i spent like hours tweaking it.
>
>Now, the font packages that i installed are pretty much the same on 7.2
>and 7.3
>The font list looks quite unchaged to me (but maybe that's just me).
>
>So, yeah, go ahead and laugh, but this thing puzzles me a great deal.
>It's a minor problem, but i guess it's an example of how small changes
>in the fonts list can change the applications' appearence a lot.
>
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>




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