From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3753 invoked by alias); 9 May 2003 22:25:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 3712 invoked from network); 9 May 2003 22:25:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO firewall.daveroth.dyndns.org) (4.33.151.169) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 May 2003 22:25:16 -0000 Received: from acm.org (firewall.daveroth.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by firewall.daveroth.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h49MPFt13665 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 15:25:15 -0700 Message-ID: <3EBC2ACA.60F06397@acm.org> Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 22:25:00 -0000 From: David Rothenberger X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: fonts References: <82vfwjyfi1.fsf@ait.nrl.navy.mil> <3EBC2A8A.932E8DFB@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00522.txt.bz2 My apologies, everyone. That should have gone to the cygwin-xfree group. David Rothenberger wrote: > > 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. -- 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/