Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/10/17/10:22:08
try xfontsel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Peschko [mailto:esp5 AT pge DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:25 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: decent fonts for rxvt in cygwin
>
>
> 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?
>
> Ed
>
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