From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1006 invoked by alias); 12 Jan 2009 04:02:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 820 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jan 2009 04:02:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (HELO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com) (71.74.56.123) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:01:30 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (really [24.93.122.245]) by hrndva-omta03.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090112040128.FVSO15540.hrndva-omta03.mail.rr.com@[192.168.0.3]> for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:01:28 +0000 Message-ID: <496AC05C.9010403@columbus.rr.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:14:00 -0000 From: Paul McFerrin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MinTTY "vs" rxvt (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3) References: <20090111040508.GA8342@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <496A54F6.7020107@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <496A54F6.7020107@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00313.txt.bz2 On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 03:22:14PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >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. -Paul -- 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/