From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15130 invoked by alias); 25 May 2011 20:49:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 14942 invoked by uid 22791); 25 May 2011 20:49:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (HELO moutng.kundenserver.de) (212.227.17.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 May 2011 20:48:58 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dslb-088-073-156-097.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.73.156.97]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lw1TZ-1PZPfW2dED-017jpK; Wed, 25 May 2011 22:48:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4DDD6B36.7040004@towo.net> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 20:49:00 -0000 From: Thomas Wolff Reply-To: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; 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> <4DDD2ABB.2070009@ece.cmu.edu> <4DDD44D1.6030606@ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4DDD44D1.6030606@ece.cmu.edu> X-TagToolbar-Keys: D20110525224853882 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/msg00372.txt.bz2 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. ------ Thomas -- 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