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From: David Raleigh Arnold <dra@openguitar.com>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Cc: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Howto specify a dosemu font?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 07:15:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2hdg9$lc$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 464B1918.3060305@mindspring.com

Larry Alkoff wrote:

> David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
>> Larry Alkoff wrote:
>> 
>>> I am trying to specify a larger font for dosemu 1.2.2
>>> than the default font specified in ~/.dosemu of
>>> # $_X_font = ""                 # default 8.5"w x 4.25"h
>> 
>> It took me a very long time to find out that I could use xdosemu
>> and drag the window to fill the screen and it would use a larger
>> font automatically.  You knew that though, right?  daveA
>> 
> 
> Hello David.  No, I did not know that.
> I just tried to adjust the Kterm with dosemu running and the window
> does not adjust at all.
> 
> This might possibly be the font I'm running, which was selected
> because I wanted a bigger Kterm - the larger font seems to provide a
> larger Kterm window to accommodate it.
> 
> My large font is
>    $_X_font = "vga12x30"           # The biggest 11" wide x 8.5"high
> 
> What is your font setting?  Maybe yours is adjustable and mine is not

not dosemu, xdosemu. x, x, x!  I believe xdosemu is nothing but a
wrapper which makes dosemu use the xfonts.  Typing "xdosemu" in
an eterm opened another term, which I don't think was 'e', but I
could be wrong.  IAC, it was adjustable.  daveA 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-17 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-15 15:51 Howto specify a dosemu font? Larry Alkoff
2007-05-15 21:17 ` David Raleigh Arnold
2007-05-16 14:45   ` Larry Alkoff
2007-05-16 17:12     ` Mike McCarty
2007-05-17 11:15     ` David Raleigh Arnold [this message]
2007-05-17 14:25       ` Mike McCarty
2007-05-20  9:22         ` David Raleigh Arnold
2007-05-20 19:18           ` Larry Alkoff
2007-05-17 15:58       ` Larry Alkoff
2007-05-17 17:29   ` Mike McCarty
2007-05-17 20:51     ` Larry Alkoff

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