On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:43:30 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry <hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
The issue for me is height and width, not beauty.
For an xterm or other console, I normally want fixed-width.
There are lots of fixed width fonts available as packages.
According to xwininfo,
with the normal font there is room for 6x13 pixel characters,
with the medium font, 8x13 pixel characters.
I would expect 3 interline pixel rows and character sizes 6x10 and
8x10, but /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm contains:
snipped examples of font variations
No two fonts have the same height.
Until I understand what's going on, I really don't dare tinker.
Why not? I don't understand what harm this does. Are you restricted
for space? I installed all the available font packages on my system, and
ran through them trying each one until I found a combination of font,
characteristics (bold, regular, italic) and size that I liked. Then I
made that the default. I did this for the terminals under X, and gvim.
As I recall, there were many fixed width fonts.
What's going on?
I expect that because there aren't the restriction of the console, the
fonts for the terminal are a little more freeform.