From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5105 invoked by alias); 12 Jan 2009 16:17:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 5095 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jan 2009 16:17:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-96-233-71-199.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (96.233.71.199) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:16:43 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA4C13C028 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:16:33 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id EF15A2B385; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:16:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:34:00 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MinTTY "vs" rxvt (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3) Message-ID: <20090112161632.GA5218@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20090111040508.GA8342@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <496A54F6.7020107@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <496AC05C.9010403@columbus.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <496AC05C.9010403@columbus.rr.com> yrom: Christopher Faylor User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) From: cgf@cgf.cx 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 X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00321.txt.bz2 On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:00:28PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 03:22:14PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: Not sure what I'm doing here. >> Well, it's my main terminal. I tried MinTTY and I'm not sure yet whether >> it will supplant rxvt for my personal use, but it shows promise. >> > I've been using rxvt for years as my main terminal and just tried using > minTTY and really prefer not to use it. You see I'm and old man with poor > eye sight. The visual attributes of minTTY aren't the same that I use with > rxvt. The Lucida Console (white foreground on black) has less contrast as > the same font on rxvt. If I make it bold, it approaches nearly the same > brightness as rxvt but a little more blurry. These featurea don't go with > poor vision. > > I made the mistake of updating rxvt before and I learned no more updates, > please. Maybe it will help someone what options I use to make my > statements more clearer: > rxvt --backspacekey ^H -sbt 15 -fg white -bg black -geometry +75+80 -sr > -title "TTY$tty$label" -tn ansi -sl 3000 -fn 'Lucida Console-12' -e ksh & > My 2 cents worth, no more. You obviously have customized rxvt. I don't see why MinTTY would be any different. And, if you are not going to be updating rxvt it doesn't really matter what happens with the distribution since you wouldn't see it anyway. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/