On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Doesn't the terminal use a font for display purposes? It's probably a > monospaced font but, I thought everything ultimately used some font or > another.
John, Yes it's using the 10x20 monospaced, san-serif font. > Or do you mean that X isn't even running, e.g., you boot to the command > line? In my case I used Gnome terminal and in its preferences I see that > it is using 'System Fixed Width Font.' Just for kicks I grabbed some > Hebrew text from a web page and pasted into Gnome terminal. It looked > perfect. But Gnome terminal is a GUI. I never boot without X, so I don't > know what might happen. I always boot into runlevel 3, multiuser console mode, and run starx to load the X Window System. Sometimes I work in one or more consoles. I'm a command line user as much as possible: alpine, emacs, R, etc. As a touch-typist (thanks to the Army insisting I type at least 55 wpm to get out of counter-intelligence school), I much prefer to work from the keyboard rather than rolling the trackball around. As many GUI applications that I use that can be configured to work from the keyboard and ignore the pointy-thing are set up that way. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
