On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:37:25PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Note, vte will change this - the old fonts are not valid under vte at all > > because it uses pango for font rendering. Xft2 is required to even use a > > pcf font (like the one above) with vte, and Debian doesn't have it. Even > > if it did, the X font name would not be used, you'd have to come up with > > the Pango name. Why the hell Havoc would do this is beyond me, but he's > > made it quite clear that vte fixes most gnome-terminal woes and that Xft2 > > will be required to fix most vte woes. Since we're used to the former, we > > should at least try to prevent the latter. =) > > Why the hell would I do what? (Unclear to me which of the above you > are bitching about.) Change fonts, incompatibily, using a mechanism not designed for charcell fonts (whose stable version does not even support them), in an application which emphasises charcell fonts. This does not make sense to me, but it's what you've decided to do. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@bluecherry.net> You want fries with that? * Knghtbrd unleashes a pair of double barreled snurf guns and covers jesus with snurf darts <jesus> meany :P
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