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

[Chris Green]

On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 07:32:21AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> 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.
> 
xvile is stuck with the old and rarely renewed/maintained fixed bitmap
fonts in /etc/X11/fonts whereas vile can use all of the standard
terminal fonts to be found in /usr/share/fonts.  I'm not sure if xterm
can use the 'ordinary' system fonts in the same way that other
terminal emulators can, I use the default xfce4-terminal that comes
with the xubuntu distribution that I use and that shows me dozens (if
not hundreds) of different fonts to choose from.

-- 
Chris Green