Re: fonts

[David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>]

Myriam Abramson wrote:
> 
> How do you set the fonts for rxvts in Cygwin/XFree86?

There are many ways to do it, all of which are mentioned in the man page
for rxvt.  I'll mention two.  You can specify the font on the rxvt
command-line with the -fn switch, e.g.

  % rxvt -fn fixed

Alternatively, you can specify it in your $HOME/.Xdefaults file:

  XTerm*font: fixed

Beware of the latter if you sometimes use rxvt without X, since the same
font name looks different when rxvt is displayed through an X server and
when it is displayed through Windows.  The default "7x14" is larger
under X; it seems that "fixed" under X yields approx. the same font as
"7x14" under Windows.

Does anyone else notice the difference in font sizes between rxvt under
X and rxvt under Windows?  Are there any solutions?  It would be nice to
set an X resource for rxvt so that the font looked reasonable under
Windows and X.

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