vt100 fonts (box characters) and terminal emulation

vt100 fonts (box characters) and terminal emulation

[Roland Glenn McIntosh]

In short:
What is the path of least resistance to improve the terminal emulation and character display in my cygwin shell window or rxvt?

In long:
I use a commercial package for SSH called SecureCRT which comes with some fonts called "vt100" that have those nice ncurses line drawing characters in them.  It also has what I assume to be the equivalent of a termcap entry for "linux."  I am trying to get away from it however.

I tried to use 'rxvt -reverseVideo -fn "Terminal" -e bash' and run the ncurses-tests in /usr/bin/ncurses-test-dll/ and was unsatisfied with the results.  I tried several other fixed width fonts that were by default on my system.  I also tried just the regular cygwin.bat's terminal.

Perhaps someone has gotten cygwin shell or rxvt to emulate a linux terminal or xterm better before and can save me some headache?

Thank you.
-Roland


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: vt100 fonts (box characters) and terminal emulation

[Charles Wilson]

Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote:

> In short:
> What is the path of least resistance to improve the terminal emulation and character display in my cygwin shell window or rxvt?


In console, add 'codepage:oem' to your CYGWIN variable.

In rxvt, use a font that actually contains the box chars -- try "LuconP" 
from here:

http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/

For Xserver fonts, try these:
http://shelluser.net/~giles/bashprompt/xfonts/index.html

--Chuck




--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/