GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 91203
gnome-terminal should have more fonts
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Description of Problem: I could only select a small number of fonts in gnome-terminal. In the old gnome-terminal(1.4) I had a lot of fonts to choose. I think at the moment it looks more terrible than the old xterm. Second at the most fonts is 'mc' broken. There are no lines shown. Instead of this there are some other chars. Thanks Andreas
The fonts aren't shown because they aren't TTF fonts and the new terminal doesn't support non-TTF fonts. That's not going to change, I'm afraid. For the second part- I'm not sure what you mean by 'mc' broken- could you elaborate?
Created attachment 10613 [details] picture of broken mc
Hi, I attached an picture of the "broken" mc. This is an screenshot of gnome-terminal from 1.4 because at work I've only 1.4. But it looks the same at gnome2. (Perhaps this is an mc bug) Only ttf-fonts? I have nearly 100 ttf fonts in my system. In OpenOffice or kde-konsole I could use all of them without problems. But in gnome-terminal only 10 or 15 fonts appear. I could not choose the verdana, times new roman or any other (ms-)truetype. Later at home I will send a picture of the font-choosing dialog. Andreas
Created attachment 10624 [details] Terminal Font Chooser
Created attachment 10625 [details] Terminal with good mc but only one font size
You aren't using the TTF-fonts-only version, this is the X font selector. Luis this bug is a dup of the one about how the selector should let you choose more fonts etc.
Hi, now I added two new pictures of the gnome-terminal. On the first picture is a list with all available fonts. Here you could select font size from 8 to 34. But as you see the mc is not displayed correctly. Why could I not choose verdana, comic, arial, and so on? In the gnome-terminal from 1.4 I could choose them. I took the second picture with another font (terminal bitstream). Here is mc displayed correctly, but I could only choose font size 18. I hope the bug is explained so that you see my problem. Is this a known problem in gnome-terminal or a problem with the fonts on my system? Thanks Andreas
known issue I believe.
Perhaps OT, but where could I load the cvs version. It seems to be not in cvs. cvs works correcly with all gnome-apps expect gnome-terminal. cvs -z3 checkout gnome-terminal but cvs says not available. I didn't find it also while browsing cvs. Where is the current cvs source?
The cvs module is "profterm" for historical reasons. This issue is not fixed there yet though.
Using --with-widget=vte with fontconfig/Xft2 works a lot better. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81900 ***