Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:45:25 + Michael Gliwinski wrote: > IIRC PuTTY on Windows has such option and there is a GNU/Linux version, may > be worth checking out. It should also be possible to run a normal (local) > shell under PuTTY instead of SSH but not sure if it's exposed (via options > that

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Gliwinski
On Sunday 09 Jan 2011 19:58:54 Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > But the request was for something that would retain the same screen > > dimensions while changing the lines/columns. > > Actually I believe the request is for something that will retain

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> But the request was for something that would retain the same screen >> dimensions while changing the lines/columns. > > Actually I believe the request is for something that will retain the > same l

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > But the request was for something that would retain the same screen > dimensions while changing the lines/columns. Actually I believe the request is for something that will retain the same lines/columns while varying the font size to match t

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:06:55 -0800 Bart Schaefer wrote: > With gnome-terminal you have to configure the desired appearance as a > Profile and use the Terminal menu. I just created one with Edit -> > Profiles... and chose to base it on the Default profile, named it > Maximize, turned off "Use the

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Frank Cox wrote: >> On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:15:44 -0300 >> Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: >> >>> How about running your app under 'screen', then fire up a second >>> gnome-terminal and attach to it with 'screen -x'. Zoom in as d

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:15:44 -0300 > Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > >> How about running your app under 'screen', then fire up a second >> gnome-terminal and attach to it with 'screen -x'. Zoom in as desired >> with regular control-+ sequences. Then

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:15:44 -0300 Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > How about running your app under 'screen', then fire up a second > gnome-terminal and attach to it with 'screen -x'. Zoom in as desired > with regular control-+ sequences. Then minimize and keep it lurking. > When user wants to show bi

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:53:02 -0500 > JohnS wrote: > I wrote a program that manages classified ads.  It's designed to run on an > 80x24 screen size with ncurses and it currently runs in gnome-terminal. > > When a customer comes in with a question o

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:42:41 -0300 Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > Can they use Compiz? I have seen guys showing off some > control-wheel-something-else combo to zoom the screen. Looks like it's > a continuous zoom. That may be an option for the future but at this time the application runs on a LTSP

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > I wrote a program that manages classified ads.  It's designed to run on an > 80x24 screen size with ncurses and it currently runs in gnome-terminal. > > When a customer comes in with a question or change to their ads, the people > who use the prog

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:53:02 -0500 JohnS wrote: > I don't know about resizing the text but this "gnome-terminal > --geometry=80x50" will give you a window that size 80 char wide and 50 > lines. That I already knew, but it's not what I want to do. I wrote a program that manages classified ads.

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, JohnS wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 22:18 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > >> Is there a terminal that allows you to set the rows and columns that you want >> and then resizes the text instead? gnome-terminal has a zoom-in and zoom-out >> function that's close to what I want but i

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-08 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 22:18 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > Is there a terminal that allows you to set the rows and columns that you want > and then resizes the text instead? gnome-terminal has a zoom-in and zoom-out > function that's close to what I want but it's not "infinite" and works by > repeate

[CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-08 Thread Frank Cox
Using gnome-terminal and the like, you can set the font size that you want and then if you drag the window larger or smaller, you get more or less character per line. Is there a terminal that allows you to set the rows and columns that you want and then resizes the text instead? gnome-terminal ha