From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 11:09:16 +0200 Message-ID: From: Enrique Soriano To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme real estate on 15" macbook pro? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 83008192-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I use Acme with three columns (fullscreen) and the default fonts on my Macbook Pro 15" retina with the maximum "scaled resolution" (looks like 1920x1200). IMHO it's perfect. Regards. q On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Steven Stallion wrot= e: > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:02 AM, marius a. eriksen wr= ote: >> I use a 13=E2=80=9D rMBP at the highest resolution setting. I run acme w= ith 3 columns (though the leftmost column is a shrunk column that=E2=80=99s= really only useful for directory browsing). >> >> The only annoyance is that I regularly connect to an external display, w= hich requires me to restart acme. Instead of messing with -f, -F flags, I m= ake dumps (which store font settings). I restart acme with >> >> acme -l lodpi.dump >> acme -l hidpi.dump >> >> depending on where I am. > > I do something similar myself: > > % whatis D > fn D { acme -l $home/lib/acme/$* } > > As far as screen real-estate goes I have a similar function which sets > up a base set of windows in rio: > > % whatis W > fn W { . $home/lib/rio/$* } > > lib/rio contains files created via wloc. These are really small > things, but speeds login considerably on my laptop, especially since I > use a couple of different monitors with different resolutions. > > (I've also dealt with the sizing issue by getting used to smaller > fonts and buying bigger monitors. vera/unicode.12.font and > veramo/unicode.12.font work very well for me) > > Cheers, > > Steve >