Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/10/16/23:07:45
Edward Peschko wrote:
> hey,
>
> I've been searching for decent fonts in cygwin, and haven't found a
> really good method
> for doing so.
>
> On solaris, I do a xlsfonts, pipe it to a file, and write a script to
> cycle through the fonts at an obscenely high geometry value (ex:
> 500x500). Because the windowing system prevents such a large screen,
> it crops the windows as they are displaying. I then do a resize on the
> window, and get a list of fonts with corresponding sizes.
>
> I then look at the fonts with reasonable values, aiming for two
> windows, 90x90 (which my monitor can reasonably support,
> resolution-wise). So far, the best fit I've found on solaris is 6x9.
>
> On cygwin its a different story though. I saw xlsfonts, but there
> doesn't seem to be an equivalent to 'resize'. 'xwininfo' is available,
> but it doesn't have an option to print the information about the
> current window.
>
> So, right now, I'm scrolling through the 2000 or so fonts returned by
> xlsfonts, manually looking through each one.
>
> Any better way to do this?
Control Panel: Fonts?
Run Xwin.exe? Proceed as on Solaris.
Personally I use:
*font: "Lucida Console-*-16"
Note you could start an X server then script though:
rxvt -fn "$font_name"
rxvt is resizable via the normal mechanism of moving the mouse to the
corner, clicking and dragging.
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