Samanata font in aterm

alkos333 · 10-27-2007, 04:30 PM

I use Samanata with size 7 for my GTK theme and I'm absolutely loving it. ( http://tinyurl.com/2wn736 )

Recently, I switched from xterm to aterm and on top of using the transparency, I decided to also make the fonts look better. Since I use Samanata for my GTK theme I decided to use it for aterm as well.

I look up the definition:

Code:

me@alkos333_TPT60:~$ xlsfonts | grep samanata
-microsoft-samanata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1

Then I add the following line to my ~/.Xdefaults:

Code:

*-Samanata-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-*

It changes the font to Samanata next time I open aterm, however, the font size is huge: http://tinyurl.com/35rl2f

If I try changing either the pixel or the point size in the definition above, aterm just uses a default tiny font. When I change those back to '*', it uses Samanata, but with huge font size again.

How do I get the font size to be the same size in aterm as it is in the GTK theme?

XavierP · 10-27-2007, 06:03 PM

I don't have any experience with this, but these 2 postings may be of some assistance:
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/1...-in-linux.html
http://groups.google.com/group/linux...8962c76567d66b

alkos333 · 10-28-2007, 01:33 AM

I just switched to mrxvt and things seem to be working a bit better, but still far from ideal. Here is what the font looks like in mrxvt:

http://tinyurl.com/336zxb

Here's my mrxvtrc:

Code:

    mrxvt.loginShell:               true
    mrxvt.background:               black
    mrxvt.foreground:               white
    mrxvt.scrollBar:                false
    #mrxvt.font:                 -*-terminal-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso    8859-*
    mrxvt.xft:                      true
    mrxvt.xftAntialias:             true
    mrxvt.xftFont:                  Samanata
    mrxvt.xftSize:                  7
    mrxvt.hideButtons:              true
    mrxvt.macro.Ctrl+t:             NewTab
    mrxvt.macro.Ctrl+w:             Close 0 \! cd $HOME

As you can see the font isn't exactly 7 pixels like it is here, in Xchat: http://tinyurl.com/2q4l8c

There are also huge spaces between the letters.

dive · 10-28-2007, 10:47 AM

I've found this problem with trying to use many fonts in xterm/mrxvt etc. Not found any solution. I just picked ones that worked.

alkos333 · 10-28-2007, 08:55 PM

I emailed the list and got the following response:

Quote:

Your font doesn't look like a fixed width font. If the font is not a
fixed width font, mrxvt draws the font character by character, as if it
is a fixed width font.

Terminal emulators require a fixed width font...