Re: Dosemu practically full-screen

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

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.