* Re: rxvt in native mode, widely spaced characters
@ 2008-05-13 12:38 Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZIOM1
2008-05-13 12:39 ` Charles Wilson
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZIOM1 @ 2008-05-13 12:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Daniel Barclay wrote:
>
>> Well, I didn't specify anything. I haven't touched any of
>> /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt, ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources, or given
any
>> options on the command line Iused to invoke rxvt.
>>
...
>> Just now, I tried installing the ruby package, and as soon as I
started
>> rxvt,
>> it started in messed-up form--widely spaced characters, in yellow, on
a
>> dark
>> blue background--rather than the way it started immediately
>> before--normally
>> spaced characters, in black, on a white background.
I just did something much simpler - update cygwin with setup.exe.
After that I see the same crap fonts.
>
>Either install the bitstream vera fonts in your Windows sytem, (e.g. go
>to Control Panel/Fonts...
>http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/
>
>Or change the specified font. You can do the latter by editing the
>/etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt file itself,
This I did (following your helpful instructions) and just commented out
the two lines referring to fonts. And voila, nice readable fonts.
There is nothing font-related in my ~/.Xdefaults.
>or overriding it for your
>particular account by
> (1) creating a ~/.Xdefaults file that specifies a different font
> (2) explicitly starting rxvt with the '-fn <some font>' option
>
So my question is why does the default .../app-defaults/Rxvt specify
these useless fonts? It didn't before, it seems to work nicely
without them, and breaks in the default settings with them. So why
not toss them altogether?
Michael
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* Re: rxvt in native mode, widely spaced characters
2008-05-13 12:38 rxvt in native mode, widely spaced characters Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZIOM1
@ 2008-05-13 12:39 ` Charles Wilson
2008-05-13 13:06 ` Mark J. Reed
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Charles Wilson @ 2008-05-13 12:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZIOM1 wrote:
> So my question is why does the default .../app-defaults/Rxvt specify
> these useless fonts? It didn't before, it seems to work nicely
> without them, and breaks in the default settings with them. So why
> not toss them altogether?
Because they ARE included in the cygwin-xfree distribution (just not
installed into the *windows* font area). So the provided defaults work
great with rxvt in X mode, and look a LOT better than the *true* default
for X mode, the 'fixed' font.
I've been meaning to change (downgrade) the app-defaults/Rxvt file to
something that works okay with stock windows when using rxvt in native
mode, even if it looks like crap in X mode -- the next time I make an
rxvt package. So far, there hasn't been a reason (above and beyond this
configuration issue) to do so.
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* Re: rxvt in native mode, widely spaced characters
2008-05-13 12:39 ` Charles Wilson
@ 2008-05-13 13:06 ` Mark J. Reed
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mark J. Reed @ 2008-05-13 13:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Couldn't the native mode rxvt use a different set of app defaults?
On 5/13/08, Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZIOM1 wrote:
>
> > So my question is why does the default .../app-defaults/Rxvt specify
> > these useless fonts? It didn't before, it seems to work nicely
> > without them, and breaks in the default settings with them. So why
> > not toss them altogether?
>
> Because they ARE included in the cygwin-xfree distribution (just not
> installed into the *windows* font area). So the provided defaults work
> great with rxvt in X mode, and look a LOT better than the *true* default
> for X mode, the 'fixed' font.
>
> I've been meaning to change (downgrade) the app-defaults/Rxvt file to
> something that works okay with stock windows when using rxvt in native
> mode, even if it looks like crap in X mode -- the next time I make an
> rxvt package. So far, there hasn't been a reason (above and beyond this
> configuration issue) to do so.
>
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