Rafe,
I've sort of hacked my way to a solution, if you want to try it.
I got Andale Mono working in Dosemu on my netbook in Quantal,
with a caveat. It's a real crude hack.
The core of the solution involves copying some files over from
my desktop to my netbook; it might be all you need to do, or you
might need to install some programs; I installed the programs
and then copied the files, so I've no idea if just copying the
files will work.
This hack seems to work OK, but I've hardly used Dosemu since
doing this earlier tonight, so this solution is definitely "use
at your own risk." no warranties.
To detail: I installed xfs, defoma, and x-ttcidfont-conf, and
then copied over my /var/lib/defoma directory in its entirety,
overwriting what defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf had created. The
explanation for why I decided to do this is convoluted and not
worth recapping. You can try doing just the copying and see what
happens, or do the whole process. I tend to think you probably
need the whole process; maybe you don't need xfs.
So Andale Mono now works, and looks pretty good, but the caveat
is that Ctrl-Alt-F does not produce a true fullscreen on my
netbook, but has those wonderful spacious borders. It may be an
artifact of my netbook's screen resolution, or of my video
driver, which is the X Org AMD driver. You may get different
results. If you like Andale Mono enough, those borders might be
less of an issue. It does give me a larger windowed XyWrite than
I can get with any of Dosemu's VGA fonts (except of course for
the basic scalable font, which I hate).
If you want to try playing around with it, I can send you a
compressed defoma directory offlist, and will also send you info
on how I tweaked the X_font line in my .dosemurc file. You may
need different tweaks, but the rules for tweaking will be the
same.
Paul
On 12/02/2012 05:54 PM, Raphael wrote:
Yes, I started to gather as much.
Thanks for sending the Andale Mono screenshot -- it looks
quite nice, and I can only imagine how good it looks
fullscreen. I seem to be coming at this from the other side,
as it were -- trying to get the windowed fauxscreen as clean
and efficient as I can -- or perhaps not designed to be used
maximized at all, instead with a font tweaked so that dosemu
opens window that's practically maximized from the outset. I
may just need to spend time working with one of the other
fonts to see what I can come up with.
By the way, I just booted up my netbook's 12.04, and it's the
same story: Andale Mono appears to be installed but xlsfonts
shows hide nor hair of it.
On 12/02/2012 05:32 PM, Paul Lagasse wrote:
Re:
scalability. In all the years now that I've used Dosemu, no
font I've ever used with Dosemu is truly scalable like the
VGA font is. What I do find though is that some will scale
very nicely from a window (once I've tweaked the size
properly) to fullscreen (Ctrl-Alt-F) when set up correctly.