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 your > monitor and resolution. This doesn't make sense here, where I use the same display on different monitors with VNC. > Your fonts may get displayed too large for your taste, but that is > how they ought to be displayed. How the fonts are displayed is just a user choice. A different value of the DPI shouldn't prevent the user from choosing some given bitmap fonts. I had to find a workaround for this bug. > > I don't like it very much, due to the font problems and because > > it doesn't honour some of my xmodmap settings. There are other > > problems when I want to use it with a shell: it uses the UTF-8 > > encoding in UTF-8 locales (not configurable) and it selects > > TERM=xterm, so that "tput enacs" fails, though it supports the > > ACS. > > I think you've lost me now but maybe you have luck writing a bugreport. I wrote one for the xmodmap problems, and there is one for the font problems. I should probably report the problems upstream. > > The main advantage over xterm is that it doesn't lose the primary > > selection as soon as it is no longer visible. > > The same is true for xfce4-terminal. But you cannot extend a selection > with the right mouse button because it opens the context menu. Yes, ditto with gnome-terminal (I prefer xterm for that); I can still extend the selection with shift + left click (works with xfce4-terminal too). Fortunately, I don't have to do this much often (and I wish mice had a shift button :). > > > you are problably better off using xce4-terminal. > > > > Where can I find it? "apt-file search xce4-terminal" doesn't return > > anything. > > Typo. It's xfce4-terminal, of course. I've installed it. It seems to be an improved gnome-terminal. Do you know which $TERM I should use? Same problems with my xmodmap settings. Perhaps a bug or configuration problem in GTK+. > > > Startup time is significantly shorter on my machine and it offers > > > all the features you are used to from gnome-terminal. > > By the way, this may also come from the fact that there is (in most > cases) only one process for all terminals of a given user. That > might be a problem in case one of the terminals crashes, but that > has never occured to me. Ditto for gnome-terminal (it has different threads, AFAIK). Under Mac OS X, I use iTerm, which also uses one process, but it sometimes crashes. :( -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
