The text sizing protocol
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Classically, because the terminal is a grid of equally sized characters, only a single text size was supported in terminals, with one minor exception, some characters were allowed to be rendered in...
  • feoh@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Glad to hear about the “opt in”.

    Partially blind guy here who struggles to use computers these days because EVERYTHING IS FREAKING TEENY TINY TEXT YOU CAN’T CHANGE ESPECIALLY MOBILE AAAAAH IT HURTS.

    Ahem.

    Yes I’m a bit bitter :)

    • Ferk@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Another thing is that this standard does not allow setting an absolute size… you can only use fractions, for example, 2/3 of normal size, which can still be relatively big if your normal size is big.

      I also expect making things bigger for emphasis (or adding headings) would likely be more common than making them smaller (that’s what I hope at least). Outside of things like mathematical notation where superscript/subscript might be useful (see this comment for some examples).

      The problem with the web is that some websites use absolute units that might not scale well (like px) to define the sizes.

    • Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Dude. Reading package labels is the same for me. I end up having to take a picture with my phone, then zooming in.

      I have my PC screen size zoomed in to 125%.

      Getting old sucks.

  • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Kitty is probably the best terminal emulator I’ve ever tried out… It even made me drop Tmux as multiplexer on my stupid Mac !

    I only have basic use case right now, nothing complex but customization seems way above others.

    The full OSC52 integration with micro for copy/past over SSH and taking up the terminal clipboard was also a game changer (nearly dropped micro because of this…)

    I only scratched the surface and have only basic usage and still I can’t believe one single person is behind this project (I think?).

    • juipeltje@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I like it mainly because of the image protocol and supporting both x11 and wayland. I still have alacritty installed as well because i like how damn fast it is. If alacritty had proper image support i’d probably only be using alacritty, but they are both great terminal emulators.