Cameron Simpson wrote: > Ah, but I don't want Monospace 10, I seem to want Monospace 6. Mmmhmmm. And the magic is finding exactly how two ctrl+-'s in gnome-term change Monospace 10 and what font properties to pass to urxvt to get the same thing. I wish I knew the answer (just to satisfy my curiosity at this point). > This doco was also (slightly) useful: > http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html Ah, that helps decipher the many options to use. I didn't know what was available when I perused the urxvt man page last night. One setting that seemed to help make the size and quality match closest was dpi. Here is gnome-terminal with Monospace 6: http://pobox.com/~tmz/gt-monospace6.png And here is urxvt, one green on black and the other black on white: http://pobox.com/~tmz/urxvt-monospace6-green-on-black.png http://pobox.com/~tmz/urxvt-monospace6-black-on-white.png I got this with 'urxvt -fn xft:Monospace-6:dpi=110'. Like you said, it's not as good as the gnome-terminal. I twiddled various options relating to the antialiasing, hinting, scaling, etc., but I didn't hit upon anything that made the fonts match exactly. > This morning, with coffee and a choc wheaton biscuit in my system, I > realised that I had ignored urxvt (and rxvt and xterm)'s "bold font" > setting. Saying: > > urxvt -fn xft:Monospace-6 -fb xft:Monospace-6 > > gets me this: > > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/test/urxvt2.png > > I think it's better, though on close inspection I'm less sure. it > may be identical to the gnome-terminal, and what I ended with last > night. I couldn't tell any difference with and without the bold option set. > Thanks. Hope y'all like the sig quote:-) Sure thing. I can't say I've ever dreamed of punctuation chasing me, though I have had dreams of writing scripts - sometimes I've even had good solutions pop into my dreams. That might say more about my coding ability than anything else though. :) -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it. -- Thomas Paine
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