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Re: console update
From: |
Joshua Judson Rosen |
Subject: |
Re: console update |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:40:51 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:17:18AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:12:32AM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote:
[...]
> > Hmm, now I realize that one assumption I've been making throughout
> > this discussion is that we're using fixed width fonts. If one wants to
> > get rid of that, using variable space fonts on the console, then a
> > glyph matrix isn't so natural anymore.
>
> This is an assumption you really have to make. curses and other libs/apps
> can not do the right thing with variable space fonts.
>
> Is there a terminal emulator for X that uses variables space fonts? I would
> like to try it out. But I can imagine a hell lot of display problems caused
> by app-unawareness, starting from ASCII art to graphic characters (box
> drawing) and overwriting text.
I've used variable-width fonts in gnome-terminal--things tend to get
pretty ugly...
... which is not to say that a user shouldn't be allowed to choose for
things to be ugly like that :)
--
mas Paine
- Re: console update, (continued)
- Re: console update, Niels Möller, 2002/06/17
- Re: console update, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/06/17
- Re: console update, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/06/17
- Re: console update, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/06/17
- Re: console update, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/06/17
- Re: console update, Niels Möller, 2002/06/18
- Re: console update, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/06/18
- Re: console update, Adam Olsen, 2002/06/18
- Re: console update, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/06/19
- Re: console update, Niels Möller, 2002/06/19
- Re: console update,
Joshua Judson Rosen <=
- Re: console update, Stephan Trebels, 2002/06/18
- Re: console update, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/06/18