From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26013 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2010 15:05:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 26004 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Sep 2010 15:05:55 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_RX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (HELO smtpout.karoo.kcom.com) (212.50.160.34) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:05:51 +0000 Received: from 213-152-38-55.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO [192.168.0.8]) ([213.152.38.55]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2010 16:05:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4CA0B2D2.8050203@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:05:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: d10@justpickone.org Subject: Re: gvim tiny font in 1.7.7 References: <20100922153425.GG26157@justpickone.org> In-Reply-To: <20100922153425.GG26157@justpickone.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-09/txt/msg00078.txt.bz2 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 Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/