Re: Nice looking terminal applications

["Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 15:32, ghe <ghe@slsware.com> wrote:
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> Maurí­cio wrote:
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>> I've realized most of my time in a computer I use
>> just an input/output line. (I don't even need a
>> vt100-like terminal, since I use 'ed' or 'sam' as
>> text-editors.) But I still need X because of
>> utf-8 fonts and anti-aliasing.
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>> Is it possible to get that without X? Can I get
>> my text-only terminal to use utf-8 and nice fonts?
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> Define "nice" :-) It's possible to change the console font from huge to
> civilized (don't remember how; last time I did that, it involved some
> secret numbers on a grub menu line, I think), but you can't specify a
> *really* nice variable spaced,

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There is nothing "nice" about variable width fonts on the CLI :-)


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers