Re: TrueType fonts for xvile

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 10:05:36AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
>    I played with this a bit a while ago.  I found a diff and an
>    app-defaults kicking around in my work directory (attached), that
>    should give you an idea of the configure options that I used.
>    IIRC you need to specify a comma before the font size.  Part of my diff
>    is to change that separator to a dash--I don't recall now if that was a
>    requirement to get it working, or just a preference.  There are a
>    handful of different ways to specify TrueType fonts in my .Xresources,
>    but dash seems to be a common delimiter between the face and the size.
>    As far as fonts go, I use Hack (Debian package fonts-hack) for
>    programming.  Source Code Pro
>    ([1]https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Code+Pro) is also good.
>    --bod
> 

Thanks Brendan, I'll do some playing around with all this.  There's
quite a lot of 'tuning' to do with my new monitor. I've moved from a
Dell Ultrasharp U2410 24" 1920x1200 to an Asus 28" 4k 3840x2160 so
everything needs to be made bigger!

-- 
Chris Green