Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm
Amit Uttamchandani: Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi: 93 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.rgba: rgb Thank you for your suggestions. I will try this out. I am by the way using DWM for my window manager and I have an .Xdefaults file with some xterm font settings. Should I put your config there or in a separate .Xresources file? No, Xdefaults should be fine if you are already using it. J. -- All participation is a myth. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm
Ok I tried putting it in .Xdefaults. This is my current .Xdefaults: xterm*background: black xterm*foreground: white xterm*cursorColor: SkyBlue xterm*font: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal- *-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm*ScrollBar: off xterm*SaveLines: 2500 Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi: 93 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.rgba: rgb No change in xterm but GTK apps have changes. The menubar fonts in firefox, for example, are smaller. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:04:09 + (UTC) Amit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok I tried putting it in .Xdefaults. This is my current .Xdefaults: xterm*background: black xterm*foreground: white xterm*cursorColor: SkyBlue xterm*font: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal- *-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm*ScrollBar: off xterm*SaveLines: 2500 Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi: 93 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.rgba: rgb No change in xterm but GTK apps have changes. The menubar fonts in firefox, for example, are smaller. Amit The change in font size is due to the value of 'Xft.dpi'. Try 96 instead of 93. You need to specify a truetype font using the 'faceName' resource, not 'font'. So the relevant lines would be: XTerm*faceName: BitStream Vera Sans Mono XTerm*faceSize: 10 You can test the values beforehand by supply them on the command line, e.g., xterm -fa 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono' -fs 10 See the xterm man page for further details. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm
Wow! That's it! Worked like a charm! Thank you so much! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm
Amit Uttamchandani: Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop screen except for xterm. I finally figured out how to change the font in xterm to bitstream vera sans mono but the fonts in xterm look jagged and terrible in this screen. Put Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi: 93 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.rgba: rgb in your ~/.Xresources and make sure that it is read on every login by doing sth. like 'xrdb ~/.Xresources'. How to do that depends on your desktop environment. The dpi most probably needs to be adjusted. J. -- I spend money without thinking on products and clothes that I believe will enhance my social standing. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm
Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi: 93 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.rgba: rgb Thank you for your suggestions. I will try this out. I am by the way using DWM for my window manager and I have an .Xdefaults file with some xterm font settings. Should I put your config there or in a separate .Xresources file? Thanks. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Font Smoothing in Xterm
Hey guys, Been happily using debian etch for over a month now! What an amazing system this is. Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop screen except for xterm. I finally figured out how to change the font in xterm to bitstream vera sans mono but the fonts in xterm look jagged and terrible in this screen. Any suggestions on how to work around this. I tried several methods including dpkg-reconfigure -plow fontconfig-config but to no avail. I know I could use the GNOME terminal or Konsole but they are not as quick as xterm. Any other alternatives that you guys suggest? Thanks, Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm
Hi Amit. Amit Uttamchandani, 14.08.2007 02:36: I know I could use the GNOME terminal or Konsole but they are not as quick as xterm. Any other alternatives that you guys suggest? I switched to xfce4-terminal and am happy with it. It has some fancy stuff, a configurable interface and is damn fast. Give it a try. Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/13/07 19:36, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, Been happily using debian etch for over a month now! What an amazing system this is. Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop screen except for xterm. I finally figured out how to change the font in xterm to bitstream vera sans mono but the fonts in xterm look jagged and terrible in this screen. Any suggestions on how to work around this. I tried several methods including dpkg-reconfigure -plow fontconfig-config but to no avail. I know I could use the GNOME terminal or Konsole but they are not as quick as xterm. Any other alternatives that you guys suggest? Try rxvt. On my CRT, the default font looks very nice. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGwPzxS9HxQb37XmcRAi/UAJ94WumkbAGHme9jIctiAWrVi79kOgCfTZRc UupXUO3/19XD2XNv+hIoyw0= =vd6Z -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm
On 08/13/2007 07:36 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop screen except for xterm. I finally figured out how to change the font in xterm to bitstream vera sans mono but the fonts in xterm look jagged and terrible in this screen. Any suggestions on how to work around this. I tried several methods including dpkg-reconfigure -plow fontconfig-config but to no avail. I know I could use the GNOME terminal or Konsole but they are not as quick as xterm. Any other alternatives that you guys suggest? You will want an ANSI font for a terminal. I used to use RXVT, and my favorite was the VGA font from the site below - he has a few sizes: http://home.earthlink.net/~us5zahns/enl/ansifont.html I followed the hint, years ago, from the BitchX docs for selecting this font, since it has all the right characters to render properly. Kind Regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm
Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey guys, Been happily using debian etch for over a month now! What an amazing system this is. Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop screen except for xterm. I finally figured out how to change the font in xterm to bitstream vera sans mono but the fonts in xterm look jagged and terrible in this screen. Any suggestions on how to work around this. I tried several methods including dpkg-reconfigure -plow fontconfig-config but to no avail. I know I could use the GNOME terminal or Konsole but they are not as quick as xterm. Any other alternatives that you guys suggest? I use urxvt (rxvt-unicode) with the following line in my ~/.Xresources URxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10 Works like a charm. Thanks, Amit Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
