Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: what's most important to you for R5? Message-ID: <3637@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 11 Jul 90 18:11:44 GMT References: <9529@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> <3628@auspex.auspex.com> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 22 > So do most other terminals. In fact, so do a lot of programs that *run* > on terminals; for what would proportional-font support in "xterm" be > better than, say, having the application run as an X application rather > than as a "dumb terminal" application? > >Fine if you want to rewrite every program that ever was. Some of them will need to be modified *anyway* to work with proportional fonts on a terminal that supports them; that's what my "In fact, so do a lot of programs that *run* on terminals" meant.... >Eg of where I'd like to use a proportional font. I have a console >window which is an ``xterm -C'' in which my window manager runs and >nothing else. This means that console messages and window manager >message turn up in there. Since this is output only it would be nice >if it were as readable as possible, a nice proportional font would do >nicely. You might try "xconsole" instead. "xterm" seems like overkill for an output-only console messages window, and adding proportional spacing just for that purpose seems even more so.