From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7600 invoked by alias); 12 Jan 2009 05:14:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 7591 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jan 2009 05:14:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ew0-f21.google.com (HELO mail-ew0-f21.google.com) (209.85.219.21) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:13:34 +0000 Received: by ewy14 with SMTP id 14so12115711ewy.2 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.119.16 with SMTP id r16mr7932687ebc.73.1231737211424; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.5? (92-235-183-122.cable.ubr18.sgyl.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.183.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm5266337eyf.47.2009.01.11.21.13.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:13:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <496AD1A6.9090406@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:35:00 -0000 From: Andy Koppe User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) 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> <496AC05C.9010403@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <496AC05C.9010403@columbus.rr.com> 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/msg00315.txt.bz2 Paul McFerrin wrote: > 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. The text foreground colour can be changed on the "Looks" page of the options. The default is a light grey (191,191,191) in order to leave room for the bright attribute. Setting it to proper white (255,255,255) might make a difference. Regarding blurriness, it might be worth trying the different font smoothing methods (none, anti-aliased, "ClearType"). Andy -- 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/