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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> > 
> > The following should be about right for 800x600 screen:
> > -----------------------------
> > rxvt -fn 9x15 -geometry 87x38
> > -----------------------------
> > 

-g 86x38 if you want to see the blue line on the right

> > The following should be about right for 640x480 screen:
> > -----------------------------
> > rxvt -fn 9x15 -geometry 69x30
> > -----------------------------
> > For other screen sizes (and fonts), you will need to tweak 
> > the geometry numbers.
> 
> For 800 this also works:
> 
> -fn 11x19 -g 70x25   but the font is still not very good looking compared 
> to console font.  Is there some other 11x19 font to try that would be more 
> readable?  block and black still look too similar.  

a and o are not similar in the 11x19 font (lucida sans), just in 9x15.

> 
> I think I was able to add bold fonts with -fb followed by the name of the
> bold font.  
-fb is correct but we have no bold fonts to add in BL3

-|+sb controls the scrollbar
The default is -sb - yes scrollbar.
+sb removes it.  (I think in BL2 xterm default was no bar, -sb added it.)

Without a scrollbar the max geometry at 800 resolution for 11x19 font is 
72x25 (two more columns than with a scrollbar).

I will see if there are bold equivalents of our 9x15 and 11x19 fonts 
(unless Steven already knows) and maybe they could be added to the next 
BL3?

Sindi