From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25428 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2001 17:52:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25406 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2001 17:52:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lnxmain.ns.cabintech.com) (209.113.228.130) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Dec 2001 17:52:22 -0000 Received: from bass.steeltorch.com (bass.ns.cabintech.com [192.168.168.3]) by lnxmain.ns.cabintech.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id fBKHqLn00914 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:52:21 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011220114800.05cdd2d8@lnxmain> X-Sender: roland@lnxmain X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:00:00 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Roland Glenn McIntosh Subject: vt100 fonts (box characters) and terminal emulation Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg01015.txt.bz2 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/