Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:22:07AM -0600, lee wrote:
Hm, the console font has changed over the years. I was thinking it has
to do with which graphics card you are using, but I don't know.

I have only very limited experience with the output of graphic cards of
the last 7 years (ah, the power of remote unix administration), but I
have never seen substantial change in the font displayed at linux boot
with vga=normal (before a console font is loaded from disk)

Isn't it possible to convert/use the console font for X11?

It must be, and I once (many years ago) tried a conversion with no good
results.

For example, debian has gbdfed (
http://www.math.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/Software/gbdfed/ ) which can import
linux console fonts and can export the "hex" format which is used in the
unifont packages (which can be used by X).

See the links below: it seems that a ubuntu user was able to use in this
way his preferred VGA console font in gnome terminal.

It's the hardware what is responsible for the switch in
brightness/contrast. Did you try to use gamma correction to make up for
it?

no, I am completely ignorant about gamma correction. The use of the
hardware brightness/contrast change of the monitor is possible, but
useless at best when one is continuously switching between X and
console.

And I would really like to have the console font for X11. All the
others are not as easy to read. Why shouldn't that be possible?

me too, but we seem to be about the only ones with this problem, since
debian has a direct solution only for the *opposite* problem (bdf2psf)

Some time ago, I found with Google links like these:

Linkname: Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts
URL: http://www.lowing.org/fonts/

Linkname: Hackszine.com: The perfect Terminal (or console) font?
URL: http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/the_perfect_terminal_or_consol.html

Linkname: Renaissance Man: What's your favourite terminal/programming font?
URL: http://jack-of-all-tradez.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-your-favourite-terminalprogramming.html


Linkname: terminal/gnome-console fonts - Ubuntu Forums
URL: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=14275

Linkname: [ubuntu] vga font in gnome-terminal emulator - Ubuntu Forums
URL: http://backports.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?p=5302718


Hopefully your eyes might like these solutions, at least more than my eyes did.

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