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Bug 96760 - font prefs
font prefs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 81900
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Havoc Pennington
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-10-25 00:41 UTC by Jeffrey Stedfast
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-10-25 00:41:22 UTC 
I can understand that for the sake of simple user interfaces, the font
picker thing has been changed to 2 option menus [font name] [font size] but
this does not seem to allow me to choose my font preference:

-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*-r-*

which happens to be the only font/size I can stand as a terminal font. I
normally just copy/paste that font choice around from gnome-term to xchat
to etc etc etc

I think that gnome-terminal can probably be a little less "friendly" to new
users since they will probably not be using it much anyway. Perhaps I'm
wrong, but I'd still like to be able to more finely tune my font and a
GtkEntry provided the easiest means of doing it before (obviously it should
still have either a font-picker-dialog like in 1.4 or the current
2-option-menu thing in addition to the GtkEntry)

I would be willing to implement this (gnome-terminal is the *only* app in
GNOME that I actually use much, so it's important to me... I might even be
willing to take maintainership of it)
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-10-25 02:21:36 UTC 
The option menu isn't a simplification, it's just the only font
selector anyone contributed that could do core X fonts.

You are clearly using libzvt. That's why you are in crappy legacy core
X font mode.

Get fontconfig, get Xft2, build with the VTE widget instead, and 
it all works a lot better. It will have the same font selector 
as every other GNOME 2 app.

Note that the X -*-*-*-*-*- crap is dead, though, with fontconfig.
You'll need to add the PCF file for that fixed font 
(grep fonts.dir for the right file, but it's probably 10x20.pcf or
something) to the fontconfig configuration.

Read:    
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/000585.html
 
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/002797.html

As far as I'm concerned, core X font mode is "as-is" and deprecated.
But yeah, it's broken.
Comment 2 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-10-26 03:51:23 UTC 
apparently this is a dup of bug #81900 since it involves X fonts.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81900 ***