From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 82195 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2018 02:25:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 82107 invoked by uid 89); 29 Sep 2018 02:25:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=menu, UD:faq.html X-HELO: NAM02-SN1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com Received: from mail-sn1nam02on0136.outbound.protection.outlook.com (HELO NAM02-SN1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com) (104.47.36.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 02:25:21 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cornell.edu; s=selector1; h=From:Date:Subject:Message-ID:Content-Type:MIME-Version:X-MS-Exchange-SenderADCheck; bh=1+f59rR/7T2Q2cxBom4XJHVJy+cncQCRreo2Buwj+8E=; b=SWHgQKpnUyDQu+TkvbVuoGKGdIYcFbcPD5o28lV2lB6v4TmGsxtAQbpmq+ux5nYZN71slzK6vGnNeI+PxysDVI0khlMvBygxejbBkIwJ67dXzRp7abj0rzPXl6hnwxMCzQjdEsaU/gx9+r4VhQXgwIuct5RPn1j9zuEcIbnMt9c= Received: from DM2PR04MB1803.namprd04.prod.outlook.com (10.161.141.18) by DM2PR04MB1897.namprd04.prod.outlook.com (10.161.142.141) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id 15.20.1164.25; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 02:25:18 +0000 Received: from DM2PR04MB1803.namprd04.prod.outlook.com ([fe80::ddbf:afbc:6841:2f1]) by DM2PR04MB1803.namprd04.prod.outlook.com ([fe80::ddbf:afbc:6841:2f1%3]) with mapi id 15.20.1185.022; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 02:25:17 +0000 From: Ken Brown To: Thomas Dickey CC: cygwin Subject: Re: XWin: Tiny fonts on high resolution display Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 02:25:00 -0000 Message-ID: <0e46d9b2-eb1c-f062-643b-1f6fe90b3037@cornell.edu> References: <20180929000647.GA2323@prl-debian8-64.jexium-island.net> In-Reply-To: <20180929000647.GA2323@prl-debian8-64.jexium-island.net> user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 authentication-results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=kbrown@cornell.edu; received-spf: None (protection.outlook.com: cornell.edu does not designate permitted sender hosts) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-ID: <3A05E292A8ACF54DA68803C6B41E8295@namprd04.prod.outlook.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00287.txt.bz2 On 9/28/2018 8:06 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > | From: "Ken Brown" > | To: "cygwin" > | Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 6:32:25 PM > | Subject: XWin: Tiny fonts on high resolution display >=20 > | A Google search shows that this is a very frequently asked question (e.= g., > | https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00247.html), but I haven't = found a > | good answer, except perhaps to use Gnome or some other desktop environm= ent. (I > | haven't tried that yet.) > | > | I just got a new laptop with a 3840x2160 display. When I start the X s= erver via > | startxwin, xterm and emacs open small windows with tiny fonts. Here ar= e the > | xterm and emacs settings in my .Xresources: >=20 > But none of those are for fonts. With bitmap fonts, you generally can us= e 10x20 > (12x24 is not so good). Otherwise, your choice would be a TrueType font = (which > generally have poor coverage of Unicode -- a problem since xterm loads on= ly one font). > If you don't need to read CJKV, that's okay though... >=20 > With TrueType fonts, you can scale it: >=20 > https://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html#VT100-Widget-Resour= ces:faceSize Thanks. The 10x20 font was still too small, but I was able to get a reason= able=20 xterm by adding XTerm*faceName: Lucida Console XTerm*faceSize: 24 to .Xresources. The only remaining problem is that the menus are still tin= y. I=20 saw https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#tiny_menus, so I chan= ged=20 'XTerm*geometry: 80x45' to 'XTerm.VT100.geometry: 80x45'. But that didn'= t=20 help. Do you know how I can fix the menu fonts? Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple