#4335 HIGH Never A: Terminal activity is less than 80 chars wide

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#4335: Terminal activity is less than 80 chars wide
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 Reporter:  AlbertCahalan  |       Owner:  jg            
     Type:  defect         |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  high           |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  distro         |     Version:                
 Keywords:                 |    Verified:  0             
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 Lots of things break with fewer than 80 columns. Right now the terminal
 activity has 69.

 Without the scrollbar, 15x30 is a good font size.

 With the scrollbar, 12x24 is a good font size.

 Sizes that are not multiples of 3 in both directions tend to show color
 artifacts on the XO display, especially with characters containing the
 diagonal found in a percent sign. Aside from that problem, 14x28 should
 work.

 I suggest 12x24, unless you can hide the scrollbar. Autohiding the
 scrollbar would be excellent. (it could be thicker then, and on both
 sides, without taking up space)

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4335>
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