On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Rajnish Tiwari wrote: > Hi All, > > On my favourite editor, NEdit, I have my font set to 'courier'. > (Aside: I use vi/vim too - often for quickly editing small files) > > As I look at the editor everyday, I wonder if there is a more > 'pleasant' looking fixed width font on both linux & solaris ? > (I aim to keep my NEdit preferences similar).
Not on both by default. But check out Bitstream Vera Sans mono. Its a clean looking sans serif monospaced trueype font that's Open Source. IIRC Solaris has an equiavlent, or you could install the Bitstream fonts themselves. > Personally, 'courier' is a good font - but it is kind of boring. Its terrible. Have no idea why any Unix would use it. Serif fonts are terrible for on-screen readability. My computer is not a typewriter. > BTW: Is there a tool on RH that allows me to see what a font > actually looks like ? Yup. Nautilus, the file manager. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
