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X can be started in a virtual console from the shell, or from a display manager, in which case X is traditionally shown on virtual console number 7. Gentoo starts with six virtual consoles by default (this can be configured in inittab or with openrc-init). It’s a more typograph-ish font, what with having smaller digits as well, and all that.A virtual console ( VC), aka virtual terminal ( VT), allows for full-screen text-based interaction, via facilities provided directly by the kernel. On the other hand, looking at and (braces’ lower end is ok, upper end could be a bit higher) don’t look well, but I find it bearable. (Additionally, thanks to subpixel hinting, even at 36pt the round parenthesēs don’t exactly align, but meh.) I normally know that the tips of curly and angle braces like }< align. Your comment made me look at that font a bit more, and I am a bit surprised about the curly braces indeed. I’ve also fixed up a few fontconfig warnings. (The Teχ/LᴬTᴇX one is a version of Raph Levien’s, but changed, and AIUI also based on an older version and never rebased, but I don’t see insurmountable problems with it except for the small glyph count as I said, I use it in environments that don’t support bitmap fonts like IntelliJ and Android.) It’s actually a not-fork of the Teχ/LᴬTᴇX version of the font, just realising the OpenType features that the inconsolata.sty parameters “varl” and “varq” enable, since almost all programs don’t do OpenType features. on IRC if you have any questions back.īonus: the xfonts-base package also adds it as /usr/share/grub/FixedMisc.pf2 for GNU GRUB 2 (both halfwidth and fullwidth, all 40k+ glyphs) and /usr/share/consolefonts/mirf16v8.psf (without) and /usr/share/consolefonts/mirf16v8.psfu (with Unicode map) for the Linux VGA text console I also have an adapted console-setup package which contains the font as 9x18, subsetted for the framebuffer or VGA console with a custom encoding (it replaces the Arabic and Hebrew by more Line Drawing characters to be able to display mc and other things properly). Hope this helps otherwise, just reply (within 30 days) or contact me e.g. It *can* be installed to overwrite Fixed 9x18/18x18ko as well (the fixedmir.ed script patches the files to use the Fixed font names, and possibly other (compatibility) changes), but does not need to be (FixedMisc uses mirf16v8.bdf, mirf18fw.bdf, mirf18hw.bdf as names whereas Fixed uses 9x18.bdf, 18x18ko.bdf, and does not have a matching 8x16 VGA font). misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ko-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1įixedMisc used the -ko- variant of 18x18 as base, but took some glyphs from the -ja- variant instead. The stock equivalents of these from Fixed are: (Also in MirBSD… in case anyone uses it.)
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#XTERM VERSUS UXTERM INSTALL#
If you install xfonts-base from above, the aliases mirhw, mirfw, mirvga (in this order hw=halfwidth, fw=fullwidth) will be predefined. There’s also an 8x16 VGA variant for e.g. The X long font descriptions for the font I mean (for -fn and -fw for xterm, for example) are: The 9x18/18x18 are not standard aliases, I just use them to describe the font sizes.
#XTERM VERSUS UXTERM PLUS#
is the easier way, it contains a replacement xfonts-base package with all the standard fonts (although not in the version in Debian, but in the latest one from XFree86® (which has fixes over X.org) plus fixes _from_ X.org plus fixes of my own), plus FixedMisc. bdf, but it takes much longer to load).įor Debian users.
pcf for installation you can also install the.
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bdf (and then the usual bdftopcf from XFree86®/X.org to convert to. It lives in CVS at (ignore the 9x18/ subdirectory there for now, I never got around to finishing that idea), but needs bdfctool from to compile from. I occasionally publish snapshots at but that’s been a while.