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farvardin

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[gnome-terminal] I want to allow proportional fonts in gnome-terminal

Hello,

in order to play some text adventure games, I'd like to make gnome-terminal, or any other terminal, displaying proportional fonts with proportional spacing (prop. fonts are just overlapping, which is plain ugly). I could use some graphical interpreters, but from time to time I'd wish to change interpreter, but on linux it seems all the terminals can't display proportional fonts correctly.

Is there a way to turn this on?

On mac os x you can choose to display non-proportional or proportional fonts, and it's running just fine.

Last edited by farvardin (2009-04-25 22:58:24)

skottish

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Re: [gnome-terminal] I want to allow proportional fonts in gnome-terminal

Try any mono font like DejaVu Sans Mono.

farvardin

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Re: [gnome-terminal] I want to allow proportional fonts in gnome-terminal

it's working well with mono fonts, but for reading literary texts I'd prefer proportional fonts. KDE4 konsole doesn't even allow proportional fonts in the selection of available fonts, while with gnome-terminal the proportional fonts are badly displayed. Why not displaying proportional fonts as they should, even if it could break some console programs (such as nethack)?

Last edited by farvardin (2009-04-26 08:11:15)