From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18090 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2018 12:35:04 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 18078 invoked by uid 89); 29 Sep 2018 12:35:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-7.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: smtp-nf-201.his.com Received: from smtp-nf-201.his.com (HELO smtp-nf-201.his.com) (216.194.196.93) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 12:35:02 +0000 Received: from cuda201.his.com (cuda201.his.com [216.194.196.22]) by smtp-nf-201.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 189F06018B for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:34:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp-nf-202.his.com (smtp-nf-202.his.com [216.194.196.20]) by cuda201.his.com with ESMTP id m8GArGgMMBr1COFR; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:34:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from zproxy101.his.com (zproxy101.his.com [18.218.2.49]) by smtp-nf-202.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 60C86602FB; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:34:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zproxy101.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB6881793A5; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:34:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from zproxy101.his.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zproxy101.his.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id Rs0R0i3sU6P2; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:34:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zproxy101.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3AD81793B2; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:34:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from zproxy101.his.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zproxy101.his.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id CwcU0byEP9l1; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:34:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mb1.his.com (mb1.his.com [10.0.1.101]) by zproxy101.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DAB41793A5; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:34:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 12:35:00 -0000 From: Thomas Dickey To: Ken Brown Cc: cygwin Message-ID: <587877532.53563.1538224490561.JavaMail.zimbra@his.com> In-Reply-To: <0e46d9b2-eb1c-f062-643b-1f6fe90b3037@cornell.edu> References: <20180929000647.GA2323@prl-debian8-64.jexium-island.net> <0e46d9b2-eb1c-f062-643b-1f6fe90b3037@cornell.edu> Subject: Re: XWin: Tiny fonts on high resolution display MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00292.txt.bz2 ----- 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). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net -- 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