[Pan-users] Re: old trouble : can't email -- SOLVED

[Beartooth Sciurivore]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:03:34 +0000, walt wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:42:53 +0000, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
                [....]
>>      Bless You, SIR!!
>> 
>>      That works. It pops up a tiny, tiny terminal with alpine in it
>> properly -- which sends, and I got it already at the address I post
>> from.
>> 
>>      I'll have to be sure I need no extra proofreading, or else use a
>> magnifying glass; but it does work.
> 
> Even that can be solved with a bit of twiddling.  xterm has an amazing
> number of useful flags -- useful enough that I actually read the man
> page :o)  There are two flags (at least) to do with fonts, -fn and -fs
> which mean font-name and font-size.  I always use -fn 9x15, which is
> confusing because 9x15 is actually the name of my favorite xterm font,
> not its size.  You may or may not have the 9x15 font, so a bit of daring
> may be needed to find what you like by trial and error.

        Hmmm ..... Two thoughts: I use gnome-terminal rather than xterm; 
and I keep font size, background color, and other things carefully 
configured, differently for several different tabs, all of which I keep 
open all the time (on a workspace of their own). 

        Is it safe to assume there would be some way of putting the extra 
switches, or parameters, or whatever, into the terminal as called from 
pan to expand it then and only then?

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Evangelist
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