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Re:Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment by panzi on Monday June 16, 2025 @06:05PM (#44293822)
Nope, only garbage output: https://imgur.com/a/RVNitFh

Is there a way to configure another terminal font? But it's not just the font, the terminal seems to also crash. At least it's not responsive anymore and has to be closed.

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Re:Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment by cosmos0072 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:36AM (#44296915)
You can choose the font with `twin --hs=X11,font=X11FONTNAME` or `twin --hw=xft,font=TRUETYPEFONTNAME`

I will have a look too, the terminal should not crash or stop being responsive

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Re:Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment by panzi on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @01:16PM (#44301410)
Thank you. Weird that this isn't in the man page or --help message. Another font didn't fix anything anyway.
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Re:Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment by cosmos0072 on Saturday June 21, 2025 @11:48AM (#44338443)
I tried compiling https://github.com/panzi/ansi-img and running it inside the truecolor branch of twin, i.e. https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/tree/truecolor and it correctly displayed an example JPG I tried - no artefacts, and terminal remained responsive.

As I wrote above, I am debugging it and fixing some known issues, thus truecolor support is not yet in the default branch

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