From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30970 invoked by alias); 25 May 2011 16:14:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 30958 invoked by uid 22791); 25 May 2011 16:14:02 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU (HELO bache.ece.cmu.edu) (128.2.129.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 May 2011 16:13:46 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.101] (206-248-130-97.dsl.teksavvy.com [206.248.130.97]) by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55AAA149 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 12:13:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DDD2ABB.2070009@ece.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:14:00 -0000 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?) References: <20110523115058.GJ3051@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DDA7E64.3060202@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20110523160437.GN3051@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DDACA2C.6080201@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4DDC867B.6040000@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4DDD1FAF.9020804@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4DDD261D.7020300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DDD261D.7020300@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; 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: 2011-05/txt/msg00361.txt.bz2 On 25/05/2011 11:54 AM, KHMan wrote: > On 5/25/2011 11:26 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: >> On 5/25/2011 1:17 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> On 25 May 2011 05:32, Charles Wilson wrote: >>>>> Maybe when I get home I'll test out a few... >>>>> >>>>> Consolas >>>>> Andale Mono >>>>> Courier New >>>>> Lucida Console >>>>> Vera Sans Mono (or DejaVu LGC Sans) >>>>> Droid Sans Mono >>>>> Inconsolata >>>>> ... >>>> >>>> FYI: >>>> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/mintty-font-test/ >>> [snip snip] >> >>> Consolas on Windows 7 indeed is much improved. > > Liberation Mono should get a mention too. It is hinted for the small > font sizes, great for those who prefer old-style crisp hinted glyphs. > I use it on mintty for Cygwin. > How do you get mintty to see Liberation Mono? I downloaded the family from redhat, installed it on my w7-x64 machine, made sure it was set to 'show,' and started a fresh mintty, but it still can't find the font. Even unchecking 'hide fonts based on language settings' in 'font settings' didn't help (made a lot of other fonts appear, tho). (For now I'm using Lucida Console) Thanks, Ryan -- 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