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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: d10@justpickone.org
Subject: Re: gvim tiny font in 1.7.7
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA0B2D2.8050203@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100922153425.GG26157@justpickone.org>
On 22/09/2010 16:34, David T-G wrote:
> Hi, all --
>
> [Let's see if I can provide all of the details the first time instead of
> having to go back and forth just for foundation... :-]
Can you attach your /var/log/XWin.0.log, please?
> I have used Cygwin for years and have been using the cygwin gvim (versus
> the Windows-native vim + gvim) for some time now. I had occasion to do a
> fresh install of 1.7.7 on a freshly-rebuilt laptop after a hard drive
> crash and so I don't think that I have any of the upgrade gotchas biting
> me, but stranger things have happened :-)
>
> When I first started gvim after my install, the font was invisibly tiny
> both for the content and for the menus. [Note that both xterm and rxvt-X
> are fine.] Using another computer to see where I was going and matching
> the keystrokes I attempted to set the font to "Lucida Console 12" but
> found no change. I have manually (a bummer, but I gather from the FAQs
> that the lack of dependency linking is temporary) added the font-bh-dpi75
> and font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi75 packages with no effect. I have set
> the guifont variable in my .vimrc file, and the tiny window was somewhat
> differently sized but still tiny. Finally, I have of course googled for
> "cygwin +gvim +font (size or tiny)" and similar to see what others have
> found, but I haven't matched anything more useful than the guifont
> setting.
>
> What do I need to fix and where to make my gvim readable?
--
Jon TURNEY
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-27 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-22 15:34 David T-G
2010-09-25 18:25 ` Frédéric Bron
2010-09-27 0:51 ` David T-G
2010-09-27 15:05 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2010-10-01 10:23 ` David T-G
2010-10-06 14:08 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-10-08 11:32 ` David T-G
2010-10-23 10:17 ` David T-G
2010-10-25 10:25 ` gvim tiny font in 1.7.7 (back again) David T-G
2010-10-26 13:01 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-10-27 11:30 ` David T-G
2010-10-28 0:53 ` Frédéric Bron
2010-10-28 1:43 ` David T-G
2010-10-28 16:47 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-10-28 1:41 ` David T-G
2010-10-28 16:57 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-10-28 17:31 ` David T-G
2010-10-26 4:15 ` gvim tiny font in 1.7.7 Frédéric Bron
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