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>You should always use fixed-width fonts. The terminal is
designed as a character-mode device emulator. Character mode
devices use fixed-width fonts. There is little that can be done
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font "fixed", or the font "10x20" as your default font (if the
user is not allowed a choice). These are by far the cleanest
and most readable of the smaller fixed-width fonts.</P
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low-resolution displays (<=800x600). Please cater for such
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>If you give users an option to set the font, make sure
they know that proportional fonts will not work correctly.
Unfortunately there is no easy and general way to do this using
the gnome or
gtk font selector widgets. It may require an explicit check of
the font before it is set in the terminal. If users are allowed
to set arbitrary fonts then the display can become very ugly and
distorted, but if they know this, then they can simply choose a
fixed-width font.
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