[geeks] Good fonts (was: Swapping Sparc boxes...)

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> > I use -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-m-*-*-* for my
> > xterm's =)

> Ooh, that's a nice one!  That's quite a bit more legible than the
> -dec-terminal-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-1 that I was using.

Oog.  Yeah =)

The lucidatypewriter was what I settled on that's nice to look at and small
enough to squeeze a couple 80x25 xterms side by side on an 1152x900
screen.  I got spoiled early on using some INCREDIBLY crisp 1536x1152
2-bit greyscale workstations (this was around 93).  The font I used there
was too big on my suns...

> If I'm feeling blind, I use -*-ergonomic-medium-r-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-*-1,
> which is, unfortunately, an IBM font, not not available on much other
> than AIX.

Yeah, my xterm just beeped at me when I tried =)

> > Haven't thought much about it under windows.

> I use Lucida Console 9 or so under 'doze.

I'll have to give it a shot...

--Kurt