On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:36:57PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: > >> but anyway...once it has fonts...Netscape looks GREAT! > > > >Netscape won't let you use a TT font for fixed stuff though.. xfstt doesn't > >bother to report that fixed width fonts are I think. This is prolly an > >upstream issue. > > I keep using xfs, this allows me to keep using the old fixed fonts. The only > thing that is not so good is that there is that much software that I would like > to make use tt fonts, that don't support anything but monospaced fonts - this > makes such software ugly - but hey, I'm satisfied and with time there'll be > improvement. I have yet to find a decent font that scales well enough to be useful to me for an xterm. When you need a 12x20 or 12x22 font because you need to use 1024x768 on a 14" monitor with my vision, you'll have an appreciation for what I mean. =p This is part of the reason I (do not|can not effectively) use X. If I can save up my pennies for a nice 19-21" monitor.... I actually have a 20" monitor. I was hoping to be able to get it working. At the time I was using Other Operating Systems and they'd NEVER support reasonably the fixed freq 1024x768.. Now in Linux with svgatextmode and some X modelines, I probably could use it if I could somehow get the hsync on green--my Millennium supports fixed vsync monitors. The vsync is almost certainly 60Hz. The hsync could be averaged out. There's a little circuit that could be built to put the sync on green for me and I don't recall it costing much.. Otherwise paying for a similarly sized monitor is going to take awhile. I've tried telling X to use a virtual desktop, but that is just clumsy IMO very hard to use and defeats the whole point of having lots of non-text stuffs on the screen at once. I can see the icons fine thanks, it's the text that needs help.
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