Cameron Simpson wrote: > I recently sojourned in a hacker's paradise and had before me a fine > pair of 27-inch widescreen LCDs for a few months. > > While there I spent some time using gnome-terminal (I normally use > rxvt-unicode), and routinely worked in a teensie tiny font which got > plenty of code on the screen and was still perfectly legible. > > I obtained this font by choosing "Monospace" and "10" in the "Font" > setting on the Edit->Current_Profile->General tab, the typing > Ctrl-minus twice to get down to something I liked. > > I have failed utterly to identify that font so that I can ask > another terminal to use it:-( I'm very fond of rxvt-unicode, and it > does support these new fangled font descriptions. And yet the new > descriptions are not very specific - such documentation as I've > found seems to say that I'm saying to the font systems "please > rummage around a bit and find something resembling my request". Is > there a way to find out exactly which font was selected? > > Any help in this would be appreciated. I missed the text-dense > environment I had come to like so much, and use so effectively. While I'm far from knowledgeable in this area, here's hoping that I can help out just a little (or spur someone to answer more thoroughly). I believe you can see what font would be used via the fc-match command. On my FC6 box, here's what I get when asking about Monospace: $ fc-match "Monospace" DejaVuLGCSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu LGC Sans Mono" "Book" Does rxvt use fontconfig? If so, I'd have thought that specifying Monospace 10 would get you what you want. But I'm sure you likely figured that too and found out through experimentation that it doesn't. :) -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway
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