[Konsole-devel] [Bug 96329] Want more freedom in choosing fonts

[Robert Knight]

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------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2006-08-08 05:35 -------
> I cannot set this in the font selection dialogue for konsole.  
> There is no way to select "semicondensed".

Terminal emulators must used fixed-width fonts because this is a very fundamental assumption used by almost all terminal-based programs.

This means that Konsole can only offer a subset of the fonts available on the system.  

Interestingly Gnome Terminal allows the user to select any font for the terminal.  Unfortunately this gives horrible results with many fonts which were not designed as fixed-width.  At least with Konsole you know that if a font shows up in the dialog box it will work.

Unfortunately there may be some fonts on your system which actually are fixed-width and could be used but don't show up on the list.  This is a problem with the software used to create the fonts, so the people to talk to are the font authors themselves.