From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2006-06-14 13:17:17
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In <20060614150028.019e2257@localhost.localdomain>, Lasse Pommerenke wrote: > > [slow highlighting] > > I haven't noticed any problems really, even with my slowest machine, a > > 1.2GHz Celeron, over VNC, with antialiased text. Is your hardware > > slower, and have you tried using a bitmap font? > > I have a Intel Pentium 3 with 850 Mhz. Currently I am using "Dejavu > Sans Mono Book 10" (truetype font, very similar to "Bitstream Vera > Sans"). Vera Sans Mono is the one I've been using lately. I just tried Dejavu and they're so similar I can't even see anything move when I switch between them. > I don't know how to select a bitmap font in the profile settings. I > cant really tell which of the fonts are truetype and which are bitmap. > I know dejavu is truetype. What is a typical bitmap font? My favourite bitmap font is Lucida Typewriter at size 10-12 (depending on the desktop's DPI setting). You might need to reconfigure fontconfig to allow bitmap fonts by adding their paths to its config file. There may be a "quick & easy" way to do that depending on your distro eg dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig on Debian. The trouble is, that sometimes makes your browser use ugly bitmap versions of Helvetica and Times etc unless you add some extra fontconfig rules. I should also have asked do you have the same problem with gnome-terminal? -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |