On 9/29/2018 8:34 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > | From: "Ken Brown" > | To: "Thomas Dickey" > | Cc: "cygwin" > | Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 10:25:17 PM > | Subject: Re: XWin: Tiny fonts on high resolution display > > | On 9/28/2018 8:06 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > |> ----- Original Message ----- > |> | From: "Ken Brown" > |> | To: "cygwin" > |> | Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 6:32:25 PM > |> | Subject: XWin: Tiny fonts on high resolution display > |> > |> | A Google search shows that this is a very frequently asked question (e.g., > |> | https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00247.html), but I haven't found a > |> | good answer, except perhaps to use Gnome or some other desktop environment. (I > |> | haven't tried that yet.) > |> | > |> | I just got a new laptop with a 3840x2160 display. When I start the X server via > |> | startxwin, xterm and emacs open small windows with tiny fonts. Here are the > |> | xterm and emacs settings in my .Xresources: > |> > |> But none of those are for fonts. With bitmap fonts, you generally can use 10x20 > |> (12x24 is not so good). Otherwise, your choice would be a TrueType font (which > |> generally have poor coverage of Unicode -- a problem since xterm loads only one > |> font). > |> If you don't need to read CJKV, that's okay though... > |> > |> With TrueType fonts, you can scale it: > |> > |> https://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html#VT100-Widget-Resources:faceSize > | > | Thanks. The 10x20 font was still too small, but I was able to get a reasonable > | xterm by adding > | > | XTerm*faceName: Lucida Console > | XTerm*faceSize: 24 > | > | to .Xresources. The only remaining problem is that the menus are still tiny. I > | saw https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#tiny_menus, so I changed > | 'XTerm*geometry: 80x45' to 'XTerm.VT100.geometry: 80x45'. But that didn't > | help. Do you know how I can fix the menu fonts? > > well, you cannot fix those using TrueType fonts, but since those use only ASCII, > the poor coverage for 12x24 (the largest bitmap font that I recall) would not > be a problem. > > (I can work out a suitable resource pattern for that, if you need it). No, I don't need it. I never use the menus anyway, so maybe I'll just disable the toolbar. But maybe someone else (Eliot?) would find it useful. Ken BKCB؛[H\ܝΈY[K؛[\˚[BTNY[K٘\KB[][ێY[K˚[B[XܚXH[ΈY[K[ [XܚXK\[\CBB