Bash Terminal display problems

[Lem Sip]

OK I changed my terminal preferences in Gnome. Now my text seems tio have probvlems knowing how many columns to use.

For example - My cursor is 6 or 7 spaces away from my prompt and I can't make it go back in front of the prompt where it should be. This also causes my screen output to become unreadable.

Anyone got any idea how to reset this?

Oh it may be because I changed the font size - stupid Linux has some really scrrewy default fonts, especially when you have a high res screen.

Lem

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bash-2.05$ `which setterm` -reset

[Unruly]

Originally posted by Lem Sip:
<STRONG>OK I changed my terminal preferences in Gnome. Now my text seems tio have probvlems knowing how many columns to use.

For example - My cursor is 6 or 7 spaces away from my prompt and I can't make it go back in front of the prompt where it should be. This also causes my screen output to become unreadable.

Anyone got any idea how to reset this?

Oh it may be because I changed the font size - stupid Linux has some really scrrewy default fonts, especially when you have a high res screen.

Lem</STRONG>

Yeah, X windows has a rather strange way of displaying truetype (or type1, whichever) as a terminal font. Best to steer clear of these...

[Lem Sip]

Thanks Unruly. I tried lots-o-fonts and found some which were (appropriately enough) named terminal fonts.

Go figure *shrug*

Lem