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Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm



On 08/13/2007 07:36 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop screen except
> for xterm. I finally figured out how to change the font in xterm to bitstream
> vera sans mono but the fonts in xterm look jagged and terrible in this screen.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to work around this. I tried several methods including
> dpkg-reconfigure -plow fontconfig-config but to no avail.
> 
> I know I could use the GNOME terminal or Konsole but they are not as quick as
> xterm. Any other alternatives that you guys suggest?

You will want an ANSI font for a terminal.  I used to use RXVT, and my
favorite was the VGA font from the site below - he has a few sizes:

http://home.earthlink.net/~us5zahns/enl/ansifont.html

I followed the hint, years ago, from the BitchX docs for selecting this
font, since it has all the right characters to render properly.

Kind Regards,
Michael



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