Re: Terminal.app and fonts

[Riccardo Mottola]

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Pablo Giménez schrieb:
>   
> > Well I found the problem.
> > It not was in the type or size of the font, although there is a bug in the
> > font panel.
> > But the reason because the terminal wasn't working is because the charatcer
> > encoding, i set it to utf8 (unicode) and this cause the terminal to crash,
> > another bug maybe????
> > Now my problem is that I can use only the courier, I think size 9,  any time
> > I change to another font I got an error like I can't find the font, like
> > this:
> > 2009-10-09 10:27:24.552 Terminal[16829] XGFont: selected font: Helvetica at
> > 9.000000 (-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--9-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1) is not
> > available.
> > 2009-10-09 10:27:24.553 Terminal[16829] The font specified for NSFont,
> > Helvetica, can't be found.
> > 2009-10-09 10:27:24.553 Terminal[16829] XGFont: selected font: Helvetica at
> > 9.000000 (-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--9-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1) is not
> > available.
> > 2009-10-09 10:27:24.640 Terminal[16829] NSFont <NSFont: 0x120c7e0> Helvetica
> > 12.000 0.000 0.000 12.000 0.000 0.000 N P 0 info <XGFontInfo: 0x1214810>
> > size 12 {x = 1; y = 0; width = 7; height = 9} 1
> >
> > As you can see the NSFont is set to Helvetica and size to 12, but XGFont is
> > still trying to look for  size 9, which doesn't exists in my system.
> > Can this be realted with the backend, I am using Cairo, would be better to
> > use libart???
> >     
>
> Most definitely your aren't using cairo, you are using the old xlib
> backend as can be seen from the class XGFontInfo or by the other
> messages you are getting. Even this backend is capable of providing anti
> aliased fonts, when asked to. Use:
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontAntiAlias YES
>   

Or use SystemPreferences, Defaults Panel, GSFontAntiAlias and set it to YES.

If you don't want to use the console, as this irritates some users.

In fact Terminal works fine with xlib, but the font needs to be 
complete. I often set it to the same Terminal font I use in xterm.

Riccardo