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| I don't know how to make Gnome3 produce sharply defined letters in gnome-terminal or mate-terminal or ... | I don't know how to make Gnome3 (Scientific Linux 7.7, like CentOS 7.7) produce sharply defined letters in gnome-terminal or mate-terminal or ... |
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| I'm used to Scientific Linux 6.10 (like CentOS 6.10) with gnome2, which produces easier-to-read, properly-proportioned text on my old 1024x768 thinkpad X61s. |
I'm used to Scientific Linux 6.10 (like CentOS 6.10) with gnome2, which produces easier-to-read, properly-proportioned text on my old 1024x768 thinkpad X61s. |
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| And I prefer 4x3 format screens or taller; I write and read vertically formatted scientific papers and similar documents, not videos and tweets. |
And I prefer 4x3 format screens or taller; I write and read vertically formatted scientific papers and similar documents, not videos and tweets. Newer "runt" screens may be cheaper to make, but don't help me do my job; my eyes are old and I can't see smaller pixels. |
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| Here's a comparison of two xterms: | Here's a comparison of two xterms, and an image of 100 lines (200x200 px) made with gimp (in SL7) for comparison: |
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| {{ attachment:SL67term.png }} | {{ attachment:SL67term.png }} {{ attachment:line100.png }} Compare the sharp pixels above to the foggy terminal below. My old eyes are already foggy and do not need extra defocusing. I've tried many alternate terminal programs (xfce-terminal, qterminal, etc.) on SL7. They all render the text the same foggy way. The underlying rendering font engine is the problem, not the terminal program. |
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I don't know how to make Gnome3 (Scientific Linux 7.7, like CentOS 7.7) produce sharply defined letters in gnome-terminal or mate-terminal or ...
I'm used to Scientific Linux 6.10 (like CentOS 6.10) with gnome2, which produces easier-to-read, properly-proportioned text on my old 1024x768 thinkpad X61s.
And I prefer 4x3 format screens or taller; I write and read vertically formatted scientific papers and similar documents, not videos and tweets. Newer "runt" screens may be cheaper to make, but don't help me do my job; my eyes are old and I can't see smaller pixels.
Here's a comparison of two xterms, and an image of 100 lines (200x200 px) made with gimp (in SL7) for comparison:
Compare the sharp pixels above to the foggy terminal below. My old eyes are already foggy and do not need extra defocusing.
I've tried many alternate terminal programs (xfce-terminal, qterminal, etc.) on SL7. They all render the text the same foggy way. The underlying rendering font engine is the problem, not the terminal program.