Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/04/05/09:18:39
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, John Rehill wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Newbie here. Am trying to get scaleable fonts in a command window
> running under cygwin. I have installed xorg-x11-fnts (6.8.1.0-3) and
> xorg-x11-fscl (6.8.1.0-2) but from there I'm at a loss as to how to
> implement them. I don't care what font is actually used, as long as
> it's readable but I want to have it so that when the user changes the
> window size or maximizes it, the fonts 'grow' with the window.
Those are X fonts, and thus not applicable to the Windows cmd window.
AFAIK, there is no way to get the Windows cmd window to display in a font
that is rescaled when the window is resized (not on WinXP, at least).
Win98 has such a feature, IIRC.
You could try to run rxvt in the Windows-native mode -- perhaps it has
some option to change font scaling when resized.
> Oh and sorry if this is to the wrong group I figured this was a cygwin
> thing and not a cygwin/x thing. Still getting to grips with the system
> so not sure where one begins and the other ends.
No, you're correct -- other than mentioning the X fonts, this has nothing
to do with Cygwin/X.
HTH,
Igor
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