Re: TN5250 and 132 switching at the console ?

[Michael Madore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:12:36AM +0200, Patrick Bielen wrote:

> Well that would be great... but how are things running in X ?
> Is there already an auto-scale function for the fonts ???
> I guess not... because if i do huge font (works perfectly in 80x25)
> and i reach a 132-screen the text is again walking of the screen, 
> so if that happens you have to switch back to the default font to be
> able to read the whole screen, after that switching back to huge font.

When running the emulator in X, it is really just the ncurses version
running in an X-term.  You would need an X-Term that had scalable fonts, and
I don't know if such a thing exists.

I would think a Gtk+ version could handle scalable fonts.

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Mike Madore
Software Engineer
TurboLinux, Inc.
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