delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/12/20/11:57:35

Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011220084801.023ecbe0@pop3.cris.com>
X-Sender: rrschulz AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:57:40 -0800
To: rotaiv <rotaiv AT biapo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Font size and color for rxvt
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011220113545.03821490@mail.biapo.com>
References: <3C2204E6 DOT 2010501 AT mediaone DOT net>
<uellqs2ew DOT fsf AT axis DOT com>
<20011220132712 DOT GB2396 AT dothill DOT com>
<m38zbx3odd DOT fsf AT localhost DOT localdomain>
Mime-Version: 1.0

Rotaiv,

This has now acquired the status of a perennial question, so searching the 
archives will yield several informative messages. Also, if you read the man 
page, then you must not have read it very carefully, because it's quite 
clear about setting the fonts. It won't explain the funkiness with some 
fonts and scaling and whatnot, but the mail messages and some 
experimentation will bring you up to speed with that.

Here's an invocation I use in a Taskbar shortcut:

'D:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -g 120x99+732+0 -bg #000055 -fg #eeeeee -fn "Lucida 
Console-11" -sr -sl 5000 -vb -e /bin/bash --login -i"

Here's another:
"D:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -g 120x91+853+0 -bg #000055 -fg #eeeeee -fn "Andale 
Mono-12" -sr -sl 5000 -vb -e /bin/bash --login -i"

(You'll need a screen in 1600x1200 resolution for these sizes and positions 
to work and fairly good vision, if my coworkers' constant squinting is any 
indication.)

The Andale version crams a lot of text in a given bit of screen real 
estate, but the Andale font is not included with Windows (at least through 
2000, I don't know about XP). It is available by no-cost download from 
Microsoft. You'll find information about this in the mail archives, too.

Good luck.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 08:44 2001-12-20, rotaiv wrote:
>Does anyone know how to change the color and font size with rxvt?  I read 
>the FAQ and MAN pages and they talk about the font resize button (ALT ->) 
>but that does not work.  They also mention configuration files that I do 
>not have with my installation of cygwin.
>
>Also, if I use RXVT instead of the CMD.EXE to run bash, what switches 
>should I use?
>
>Finally, what values should I use for the TERM and CYGWIN environmental 
>variables?
>
>Regards,
>
>rotaiv.


--
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/

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019