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Neva Arevalo
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I am working with the Terminator terminal program on Archlinux in the act of changing fonts I noticed that some of the fonts selected look terrible (overlap of letters) vs what is set by default. I tried to install a custom true font and experienced the overlap issue. Can someone advise some specific fonts that I can download or use that does not have the overlap effect?
I am using Terminator on Ubuntu 8.04. My default Monospace font for Latin characters is Dejavu Sans Mono, however, Terminator uses a Chinese font "AR PL UMing CN" to display all characters. I am wondering if terminator honors fontconfig rules, and, if there is a way to set font priorities?
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thank you very much for the quick response. I am using Xfce4 desktop (Xubuntu Hardy), and did not install gnome-terminal on my system. I created a config file as you suggested, and used the example you provided, however, I found the terminal font did not change. Does terminator have dependence with gnome-terminal?
I really like the terminator terminal emulator, except for one big problem: fonts on it are rendered slightly faint as compared to other terminal emulators (or at least Guake, which is the other emulator I've used). It's most noticable with white text, which appears as slightly gray. The resulting look is somewhat drab and text is harder to read. I'm not sure if this is the result of a setting or it's an unavoidable consequence of the rendering engine being used (I hope the former).
Except that when I look in the settings, it's telling me that my main text font color is #FFFFFF. So unless I'm missing something, it's already set to be white on black. Just to be sure, can you tell me where I would look to edit these?
As you might have noticed from my previous post A shorter prompt I have customized both the font size and font family of my Terminator. A great deal of my activities take place in the terminal and I need my fonts to be comfortably visible and pleasing to my eyes.
One of the first things I always do on a fresh system is install a bunch of fonts. For Terminator I use a monospace font called Inconsolata, my favourite terminal font. On Debian and Debian based distros, installation of Inconsolata is as easy as
I recently rebuilt my system to use the new 1.4 release and am still working out a few kinks which may be self-induced. I kept many of the previous use flags I had before, so maybe I should start anew? In any case, I compared the list of packages from my old image to the current one and don't see anything around fonts. The fonts also work well everywhere else, chromium, libreoffice, geany, etc.
I am leaning toward migrating to xfce4-terminal since it is fairly lightweight, written in c versus python (I've had some annoyances in the past where terminator would hangup when I was doing a fair amount of I/O in the terminal), and still has tabs. I use a tiling WM, so terminator doesn't provide anything I cannot do with my WM with better performance.
Okay, I think you're right. So, I think I thought I must have selected a monospaced font, but did not. When I selected the Deja Vu Sans Book Mono, it looks good, but when I select just a Deja Vu Sans (non-mono), I have the problem.
My guess is that it is caused by GNOME missing a font set like Liberation Fonts which it uses by default. So I believe the ultimate solution is to conclusively determine what font is missing and then add this as a dependency of the terminal app and/or GNOME itself.
Agreed, so what you need me to do is to switch back to the default and then I think I have a utility installed that lists all the open files (strace?) during execution and see which ones are reported as file does not exist? Then, that should be very clear which font is missing?
Frankly I am not sure. Probably what I would do is emerge liberation-fonts, and then see if the problem goes away. Then emerge another font set if that doesn't solve it, see if that fixes it. It is probably a very common font set and I'd bet it's liberation-fonts.
I don't think strace will show you what you want. There is already a catalog of fonts, and I don't think it's going to try to do any IO to load the font it needs. It will just look in the catalog and see it's not available.
I do have liberation-fonts installed. I built terminator for python 3.6, I see it is looking for python 2.7. Also, on a possibly related note, I was attempting to watch videos in VLC and on my new image, the video doesn't play very well at all. I suspect there may be an issue with my opengl setup? Perhaps it is related?
It's quite possible that one in the 'package' is a little funky and may not be the font you actually want, which was the case with me. So, I solved this by manually installing the font in my user space. Note that I prefer Inconsolata-dz to pure Inconsolata, if only because of straight format single and double quotes.
So it looks like it's installing it in much more places than I though initially. Note that the font is not called terminus but rather an abbreviation (/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ter-u12b_koi8-r.pcf.gz)
In the new 0.97, I set 'Unfocused terminal font brightness' to 1.0, because I didn't want the brightness to change when unfocused. This resulted in the effect shown in the attached image (focused on the left, unfocused on the right). The nearest I can get to satisfaction is making it 0.9, where it only dims a little bit, but keeps the proper colours.
I'm having troubles with the Meslo Nerd font in Terminator. It's fine in the Terminal, but does not work in Terminator. I have set the custom font to Meslo Nerd Regular in the preferences. But nothing. Any ideas?
The default font size that Terminator has been using causes my screen to be alittle under 160 characters wide. This causes the 80-character lines on whichI standardize my writing to wrap annoyingly, and means I have to manually zoomout by one ctrl-minus in each pane when I split my terminal.
Let's configure it so it looks nicer. Right-click on the terminal window and open "Preferences" on the menu. Go to the "Profiles" tab to customize the default profile.Later on you can create multiple profiles changing terminal font size and colors, so for instance you can have a "screen" profile for when you need to present content in your terminal.
OMZ has several themes that you can install to better customize your terminal, showing useful information based on plugins. Some themes may need additional steps to run properly, such as setting special fonts that support icons or installing dependencies.
With the fonts installed, you'll need to update your Terminator profile to use the new font. Right-click on the Terminator window, then access "Preferences" on the menu, and access the "Profiles" tab. With the default profile selected, uncheck the option that says "Use the system fixed width font". Then click on the font select box and choose MesloLGS NF Regular font. You may want to increase the font size, while you're at it. Close the window when you're finished and Terminator should now be using the recommended font for Powerlevel10k.
There is no shortage of Linux X Window terminal emulators. For a power user who works long hours with the terminal, it is important to know how to zoom in, that is, make the text larger. Your strained eyes will thank you for it. The table below summarizes how to increase and decrease the font size on the fly for an non-exhaustive list of terminal emulators. Terminal emulators + font size - font size xterm Shift + Keypad Plus(+) Shift + Keypad Minus(-) GNOME terminal Control + Shift + Plus(+)
Do not use keypad. Control + Minus(-)Do not use keypad. Terminator Control + Shift + Plus(+)
Do not use keypad. Control + Minus(-)Do not use keypad. Konsole Control + Mouse Wheel Scroll Up, or
Control + Plus(+) Control + Mouse Wheel Scroll Down, or
Control + Minus(-) lilyterm Control + Plus(+)
Do not press Shift, or use keypad. Control + Minus(-)
Do not use keypad. xfce4-terminal Right Click/Preferences/Appearance. No keyboard or mouse shortcut. lxterminal Edit/Preferences/Style. No keyboard or mouse shortcut. mlterm Control + Right click to bring up settings. Encoding tab/Font Size. No keyboard or mouse shortcut. kterm Control + Right click to bring up font size menu. rxvt-unicode (urxvt) Doable but archaic. Issue printf command inside terminal window.
Eg: printf '\33]50;%s\007' "xft:DejaVu Sans Mono-8" My next post aims to further reduce your eye strain by increasing the font size of virtual terminals.Posted byPeter LeungEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest9 comments:Anonymoussaid...Thanks for a well organized presentation! Very Very helpful.
For example, assume that the Geometry Width is 1.5 and the text Height(in the Text category) is 2.0. Whenyou place a dimension that has a cell terminator, the terminator 's size isthe cell definition size multiplied by 3.0. Uniform Cell Scale is useful ifyou plan to save a DGN file to DWG format, since the DWG format requires cellwidth and height to be uniform.
The download file for this font includes both a TTF and OTF variant, so you are free to use whichever one that you personally prefer. We normally suggest the True Type Font (ttf) option for most users, due to it being the one offering maximum compatibility across both PC and Mac computers. Here is what this typeface looks like at various different font sizes.
Below you can download this font for free so that you can install it on your computer. Alternatively, you can use our free Terminator font generator tool that is presented further on down the bottom of this page.
Use our free Terminator font generator tool below to create your own custom design logo or image. Enter your text, select a font, choose a font size, and pick your favorite colors. Hit the Generate button and your logo/image is created and ready to download.
Image Generator is a service that allows you to fully customize your texts andvisualize them in various formats. This user-friendly tool enables you to adjustfont style, font size, background color, font color, and your text content.
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I am using Terminator on Ubuntu 8.04. My default Monospace font for Latin characters is Dejavu Sans Mono, however, Terminator uses a Chinese font "AR PL UMing CN" to display all characters. I am wondering if terminator honors fontconfig rules, and, if there is a way to set font priorities?
download font terminator
Download https://t.co/hxI6qBewdZ
thank you very much for the quick response. I am using Xfce4 desktop (Xubuntu Hardy), and did not install gnome-terminal on my system. I created a config file as you suggested, and used the example you provided, however, I found the terminal font did not change. Does terminator have dependence with gnome-terminal?
I really like the terminator terminal emulator, except for one big problem: fonts on it are rendered slightly faint as compared to other terminal emulators (or at least Guake, which is the other emulator I've used). It's most noticable with white text, which appears as slightly gray. The resulting look is somewhat drab and text is harder to read. I'm not sure if this is the result of a setting or it's an unavoidable consequence of the rendering engine being used (I hope the former).
Except that when I look in the settings, it's telling me that my main text font color is #FFFFFF. So unless I'm missing something, it's already set to be white on black. Just to be sure, can you tell me where I would look to edit these?
As you might have noticed from my previous post A shorter prompt I have customized both the font size and font family of my Terminator. A great deal of my activities take place in the terminal and I need my fonts to be comfortably visible and pleasing to my eyes.
One of the first things I always do on a fresh system is install a bunch of fonts. For Terminator I use a monospace font called Inconsolata, my favourite terminal font. On Debian and Debian based distros, installation of Inconsolata is as easy as
I recently rebuilt my system to use the new 1.4 release and am still working out a few kinks which may be self-induced. I kept many of the previous use flags I had before, so maybe I should start anew? In any case, I compared the list of packages from my old image to the current one and don't see anything around fonts. The fonts also work well everywhere else, chromium, libreoffice, geany, etc.
I am leaning toward migrating to xfce4-terminal since it is fairly lightweight, written in c versus python (I've had some annoyances in the past where terminator would hangup when I was doing a fair amount of I/O in the terminal), and still has tabs. I use a tiling WM, so terminator doesn't provide anything I cannot do with my WM with better performance.
Okay, I think you're right. So, I think I thought I must have selected a monospaced font, but did not. When I selected the Deja Vu Sans Book Mono, it looks good, but when I select just a Deja Vu Sans (non-mono), I have the problem.
My guess is that it is caused by GNOME missing a font set like Liberation Fonts which it uses by default. So I believe the ultimate solution is to conclusively determine what font is missing and then add this as a dependency of the terminal app and/or GNOME itself.
Agreed, so what you need me to do is to switch back to the default and then I think I have a utility installed that lists all the open files (strace?) during execution and see which ones are reported as file does not exist? Then, that should be very clear which font is missing?
Frankly I am not sure. Probably what I would do is emerge liberation-fonts, and then see if the problem goes away. Then emerge another font set if that doesn't solve it, see if that fixes it. It is probably a very common font set and I'd bet it's liberation-fonts.
I don't think strace will show you what you want. There is already a catalog of fonts, and I don't think it's going to try to do any IO to load the font it needs. It will just look in the catalog and see it's not available.
I do have liberation-fonts installed. I built terminator for python 3.6, I see it is looking for python 2.7. Also, on a possibly related note, I was attempting to watch videos in VLC and on my new image, the video doesn't play very well at all. I suspect there may be an issue with my opengl setup? Perhaps it is related?
It's quite possible that one in the 'package' is a little funky and may not be the font you actually want, which was the case with me. So, I solved this by manually installing the font in my user space. Note that I prefer Inconsolata-dz to pure Inconsolata, if only because of straight format single and double quotes.
So it looks like it's installing it in much more places than I though initially. Note that the font is not called terminus but rather an abbreviation (/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ter-u12b_koi8-r.pcf.gz)
In the new 0.97, I set 'Unfocused terminal font brightness' to 1.0, because I didn't want the brightness to change when unfocused. This resulted in the effect shown in the attached image (focused on the left, unfocused on the right). The nearest I can get to satisfaction is making it 0.9, where it only dims a little bit, but keeps the proper colours.
I'm having troubles with the Meslo Nerd font in Terminator. It's fine in the Terminal, but does not work in Terminator. I have set the custom font to Meslo Nerd Regular in the preferences. But nothing. Any ideas?
The default font size that Terminator has been using causes my screen to be alittle under 160 characters wide. This causes the 80-character lines on whichI standardize my writing to wrap annoyingly, and means I have to manually zoomout by one ctrl-minus in each pane when I split my terminal.
Let's configure it so it looks nicer. Right-click on the terminal window and open "Preferences" on the menu. Go to the "Profiles" tab to customize the default profile.Later on you can create multiple profiles changing terminal font size and colors, so for instance you can have a "screen" profile for when you need to present content in your terminal.
OMZ has several themes that you can install to better customize your terminal, showing useful information based on plugins. Some themes may need additional steps to run properly, such as setting special fonts that support icons or installing dependencies.
With the fonts installed, you'll need to update your Terminator profile to use the new font. Right-click on the Terminator window, then access "Preferences" on the menu, and access the "Profiles" tab. With the default profile selected, uncheck the option that says "Use the system fixed width font". Then click on the font select box and choose MesloLGS NF Regular font. You may want to increase the font size, while you're at it. Close the window when you're finished and Terminator should now be using the recommended font for Powerlevel10k.
There is no shortage of Linux X Window terminal emulators. For a power user who works long hours with the terminal, it is important to know how to zoom in, that is, make the text larger. Your strained eyes will thank you for it. The table below summarizes how to increase and decrease the font size on the fly for an non-exhaustive list of terminal emulators. Terminal emulators + font size - font size xterm Shift + Keypad Plus(+) Shift + Keypad Minus(-) GNOME terminal Control + Shift + Plus(+)
Do not use keypad. Control + Minus(-)Do not use keypad. Terminator Control + Shift + Plus(+)
Do not use keypad. Control + Minus(-)Do not use keypad. Konsole Control + Mouse Wheel Scroll Up, or
Control + Plus(+) Control + Mouse Wheel Scroll Down, or
Control + Minus(-) lilyterm Control + Plus(+)
Do not press Shift, or use keypad. Control + Minus(-)
Do not use keypad. xfce4-terminal Right Click/Preferences/Appearance. No keyboard or mouse shortcut. lxterminal Edit/Preferences/Style. No keyboard or mouse shortcut. mlterm Control + Right click to bring up settings. Encoding tab/Font Size. No keyboard or mouse shortcut. kterm Control + Right click to bring up font size menu. rxvt-unicode (urxvt) Doable but archaic. Issue printf command inside terminal window.
Eg: printf '\33]50;%s\007' "xft:DejaVu Sans Mono-8" My next post aims to further reduce your eye strain by increasing the font size of virtual terminals.Posted byPeter LeungEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest9 comments:Anonymoussaid...Thanks for a well organized presentation! Very Very helpful.
For example, assume that the Geometry Width is 1.5 and the text Height(in the Text category) is 2.0. Whenyou place a dimension that has a cell terminator, the terminator 's size isthe cell definition size multiplied by 3.0. Uniform Cell Scale is useful ifyou plan to save a DGN file to DWG format, since the DWG format requires cellwidth and height to be uniform.
The download file for this font includes both a TTF and OTF variant, so you are free to use whichever one that you personally prefer. We normally suggest the True Type Font (ttf) option for most users, due to it being the one offering maximum compatibility across both PC and Mac computers. Here is what this typeface looks like at various different font sizes.
Below you can download this font for free so that you can install it on your computer. Alternatively, you can use our free Terminator font generator tool that is presented further on down the bottom of this page.
Use our free Terminator font generator tool below to create your own custom design logo or image. Enter your text, select a font, choose a font size, and pick your favorite colors. Hit the Generate button and your logo/image is created and ready to download.
Image Generator is a service that allows you to fully customize your texts andvisualize them in various formats. This user-friendly tool enables you to adjustfont style, font size, background color, font color, and your text content.
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