From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 104963 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2018 03:03:59 -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 104950 invoked by uid 89); 29 Sep 2018 03:03:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:801, H*Ad:D*edu X-HELO: mailsrv.cs.umass.edu Received: from mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (HELO mailsrv.cs.umass.edu) (128.119.240.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 03:03:57 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (c-24-62-203-86.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.62.203.86]) by mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EEB24401F602; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 23:03:55 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: XWin: Tiny fonts on high resolution display To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20180929000647.GA2323@prl-debian8-64.jexium-island.net> <0e46d9b2-eb1c-f062-643b-1f6fe90b3037@cornell.edu> From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: <3dae6237-76de-e707-f437-26bf8ddbf1fd@cs.umass.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 03:03:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0e46d9b2-eb1c-f062-643b-1f6fe90b3037@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00288.txt.bz2 On 9/28/2018 10:25 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 9/28/2018 8:06 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> https://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html#VT100-Widget-Resources:faceSize > > Thanks. The 10x20 font was still too small, but I was able to get a reasonable > xterm by adding > > XTerm*faceName: Lucida Console > XTerm*faceSize: 24 > > to .Xresources. The only remaining problem is that the menus are still tiny. I > saw https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#tiny_menus, so I changed > 'XTerm*geometry: 80x45' to 'XTerm.VT100.geometry: 80x45'. But that didn't > help. Do you know how I can fix the menu fonts? The above is good to know. Not sure if it will affect the font size used in menus, but there is a menuHeight resource ... Eliot -- 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