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Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances
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Ability to choose terminal emulator multipass.gui #899

Open izznogooood opened 5 years ago

izznogooood commented 5 years ago

Not very readable now.

Saviq commented 5 years ago

Hi @izznogooood,

The problem is that, when in a confined snap, we can't just use any terminal emulator (or your preferred one, for that matter) because we can't run applications from outside the snap.

We'll be working on this with the snapd team, ideally opening something like terminal:///?command=… would open your default terminal emulator.

mirao commented 4 years ago

The default multipass.gui terminal on my 4K display (HP Envy 13 Skylake) is useless, because terminal size and fonts are too small (perhaps the terminal isn't compatible with 4K and doesn't respect OS display settings). I would like to start gnome-terminal from multipass.gui I'm running Ubuntu 19.10

ricab commented 4 years ago

Hi @mirao , until we have a better solution for this, perhaps we can help you workaround. Does the following help?

echo xterm*faceName: xft:monospace:pixelsize=35 >> ~/.Xresources
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources # only this time, X should pick up the file on its own when it next starts

Alternatively, you can try Ctrl + Right Click to change the font in an xterm instance.