Re: Fonts for xvile in linux - where to find some nice ones?

[Paul Fox]

chris wrote:
 > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 06:54:48PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
 > > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 10:43:47PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
 > > > I am always hitting this issue, the current fonts available by default
 > > > in standard Linux repositories for xvile are generally horrible.  Does
 > > > anyone here have any nice ones, or can anyone point me at some nice
 > > > ones.
 > > 
 > > There's two sets of fonts in the default menu for xvile.
 > > The first looks like the bitmap fonts used for xterm,
 > > while the other is b&h lucidatypewriter --
 > > 
 > > you might find this as
 > >    bitmap-lucida-typewriter-fonts
 > > or
 > >    xfonts-100dpi
 > >    xfonts-75dpi
 > >  
 > Yes, I have all of those, I was just hoping/wondering if anyone has
 > created different/better bitmap fonts.  They're OK[ish] on my desktop
 > machine but I can't find anything that is really comfortable to use on
 > my laptop.

I haven't thought about fonts in a long time.  Is it the case that
xvile can't use the same fonts that xterm uses?  I don't use xvile,
but I'm pretty happy with my fixed xterm fonts.

paul

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