Fonts for VAST on Linux

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 4:18 AM Joachim Tuchel <<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="ktiRGBIxCgAJ" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href=&#39;javascript:&#39;;return true;" onclick="this.href=&#39;javascript:&#39;;return true;">jtu...@...> wrote:

So here I am, looking at the ECAP 3 of 9.2 in Kubuntu. It's not a full replacement for the Windows version, given there is no Scintilla support in VAST on Linux. I guess this will not change before VAST has its home on GTK or similar.

Hi Joachim,

Yes, I mostly agree with you. The only bit I will add is that I used wine very very happily in Linux (I already sent an email about this). Scintilla and even HiDPI worked nicely. 

 

9.2 improves its look&feel on Linux again, making development on Linux even better. Mousewheel scrolling and the removal of some "keyboard oddities" are really nice.

 

Indeed 9.2 improves again the usability on Linux. I am glad you noticed. 

 

I'd like to change the code and browser fonts to make this even better. But the font prompter only offers a hand full of more or less useless fonts, while other Applications on Kubuntu display wonderfully crafted fonts and offer a plethora of fonts. I guess I need some fonts in some pre-Gnome/GTK format (motif-compatible?) and install these. I just don't know what to look for... Any hints?

VA Smalltalk on Linux uses the X server to provide and render fonts.  You should be able to select and use  any font that can be made available and rendered by the platform’s X server. However, not all X servers support all fonts.  I presume you are familiar with using xlsfonts to list the available fonts. If not, what I normally do in Ubuntu/Debian kind of thing is:

 sudo apt-get install xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-scalable xfonts-encodings  

Then with `xlsfonts` check what I have and see if I have something I like more and later set that in VAST. 

But again, I couldn't find anything that made a big difference.

If you do, please let me know. 

Best regards, 

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Mariano Martinez Peck
Software Engineer, Instantiations Inc.

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