From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 20:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDD6B36.7040004@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DDD44D1.6030606@ece.cmu.edu>
Am 25.05.2011 20:05, schrieb Ryan Johnson:
> On 25/05/2011 12:55 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 25 May 2011 17:13, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Works for me, on w7-x64. Make sure the font shows up in the Fonts
>> control panel and that it isn't hidden, i.e. not appearing greyed out.
>> There's a 'Show' button along the top of the panel in case it is.
> I tried to say before that I have done that (I saw the closed bug
> about this and made sure to follow the instructions there). Unchecking
> that setting about language-specific hiding made a whole bunch of
> other (presumably Asian) fonts show up in mintty, but still no
> Liberation Mono.
>
> The font is officially installed, officially showing, and usable by
> just about everything except mintty. Most apps (like Word) picked it
> up immediately.
>
> Very odd...
I don't see it in the menu either, on XP.
However, mintty -o Font="Liberation Mono" works.
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Thomas
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2011-05-25 5:17 ` Andy Koppe
2011-05-25 15:27 ` Charles Wilson
2011-05-25 15:54 ` KHMan
2011-05-25 16:14 ` Ryan Johnson
2011-05-25 16:20 ` KHMan
2011-05-25 16:55 ` Andy Koppe
2011-05-25 18:05 ` Ryan Johnson
2011-05-25 20:49 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2011-05-26 6:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-05-25 16:53 ` Andy Koppe
2011-05-26 1:42 ` Charles Wilson
2011-05-26 15:54 ` mintty font test Warren Young
2011-05-27 5:26 ` Andy Koppe
2011-05-27 5:30 ` Andy Koppe
2011-05-31 15:17 ` Charles Wilson
2011-05-31 18:19 ` Thomas Wolff
2011-06-01 20:07 ` Thomas Wolff
2011-06-01 5:27 ` Andy Koppe
2011-06-01 15:45 ` Charles Wilson
2011-06-01 18:15 ` Andy Koppe
2011-05-25 21:41 ` setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?) Charles Wilson
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