On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 12:57, Steve Juranich wrote: > Last night, while I was doing my nightly 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I caught the > new gnome-terminal package (2.0). I can't help but saying that I think it > really stinks. :< > Too bad-- I love the tabbed terminals > It grabbed this huge 100dpi font for the toolbar. There weren't nearly as many > configuration options as in the older version. None of the fonts that I was > able to choose from looked "right". The 'translucent background' option also > blurred the background image. All in all, it was much, much uglier than the > earlier versions of gnome-terminal. > I guess you are using the full gnome2? If not, you should, and use gnome-control-center to set the fonts. Then add 'export GDK_USE_XFT=1' to one of your x startup scripts. The terminal is absolutely beautiful IMO. > Since well over half of my time in front of a computer is spent looking at a > terminal, it MUST be somewhat appealing. I know that there's only so much > that a designer can do with lines of text, but it seems like this new version > was such a step backwards as far as visual appeal goes. > I hear you in that it is important. Try the above. Jamie Strandboge -- Email: jstrand1@rochester.rr.com GPG/PGP ID: 26384A3A Fingerprint: D9FF DF4A 2D46 A353 A289 E8F5 AA75 DCBE 2638 4A3A
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