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Re: /svn/athena r25542 - trunk/debathena/config/pam-config/debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Sat Jun 2 16:26:36 2012
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 16:26:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
cc: source-commits@MIT.EDU
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2012, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> OK, I looked at this. gdm will happily display very long lines. On a
Thanks.
> 1024x768 display, 140 characters is about the upper-bound before it goes
> off the screen. (If you have less than 1024 horizontal pixels _and_
> want to run -cluster, go buy a real computer).
>
> However, it will also display multiple lines (I tested up to 10, which
> fit comfortably on the screen without obscuring the rest of the UI).
> If you turn on "large fonts" in universal access, 90 characters and 5
> lines is about the upper bound. For our purposes, I suggest we limit
> ourselves to 80 characters per line, 2 lines.
That sounds like a good plan.
-Ben
