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by thiderman 4830 days ago
Can't use XFT fonts. Doesn't set 256 colors properly. The blinking cursor is retarded and seemingly cannot be disabled. Those are kind of dealbreakers for me.

On the plus side, it feels really snappy. Impressive speed indeed.
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Aissen 4830 days ago
Right click -> Options -> Behaviour -> Cursor blinking -> uncheck.
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thiderman 4830 days ago
Thanks. Guess I was kinda quick to jump on that one.
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billiob 4830 days ago
What do you mean by "Doesn't set 256 colors properly" ? You can use fonts provided by fontconfig. Check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYYfQrlXlcM
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sliverstorm 4830 days ago
I want so badly for the XFT thing to not be a problem. All my favorite terms benefit from using the old font system instead, but there just aren't any good fonts I can use.

I do like some of the classic monospace fonts like 6x13, but my monitor resolution is just too high for that.

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neeee 4829 days ago
How about GNU unifont or terminus? they both have fairly large sizes.
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sliverstorm 4829 days ago
I try terminus every now and again, but I always have trouble installing my own fonts (timeshare, not my box) and terminus isn't nice enough to motivate me to struggle through.
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gcb0 4830 days ago
as someone who uses several (SEVERAL) xterms on the same screen and focus-follow-mouse, my best bet to see where my words will go when i type is to notice which screen has the blinking green cursor instead of the static white one.

that one would help a lot.

(i used to have a very visible window manager active border and shadows, and also lower the opacity of the non-focused ones... but gnome 3 designers in all their wisdom decided i didn't need all that)

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dsr_ 4830 days ago
I do that with XFCE. Active window gets a bright title bar and borders with dark text, inactive windows get dark title bars with light text and thinner borders. High contrast in both cases, but easy to differentiate.

Themes like that are very easy to change to suit yourself.

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gcb0 4829 days ago
I know, i did that on every window manager since Irix.

But gnome3...

I'm only using it because I'm stubborn. And because i maintain one somewhat popular gui app and i want to test it where i know none of other contributors are testing

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