Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C277161.7090408@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 13:18:09 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Glenn McIntosh CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: vt100 fonts (box characters) and terminal emulation References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011220114800.05cdd2d8@lnxmain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote: > In short: > What is the path of least resistance to improve the terminal emulation and character display in my cygwin shell window or rxvt? In console, add 'codepage:oem' to your CYGWIN variable. In rxvt, use a font that actually contains the box chars -- try "LuconP" from here: http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/ For Xserver fonts, try these: http://shelluser.net/~giles/bashprompt/xfonts/index.html --Chuck -- 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/