Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Erik Vigmostad Subject: Re: Terminal output from ssh much slower than putty Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 18:10:08 -0600 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3E67E360.9060403@artselect.com> References: <3E6601B7.6050403@artselect.com> <3E665F9D.3010700@t-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en how do I turn clear type off? Markus Schönhaber wrote: > Erik Vigmostad wrote: > >> Is there some way to speedup the output to my terminal? I would like >> to use cygwin for ssh'g to various servers, but it is so much slower >> that using putty that I can't. >> > > I found that Windows XP's "Clear Type" font smoothing algorithm makes > rxvt virtually unusable on my machine at work. Chaning the AA setting to > "Standard" made me happy again. > But that may be a very special case, since this machine is a dual proc > dual screen system with a TNT2 and a Voodoo3 graphics card - doesn't > make it really easy for windows I think. > OTOH: on my machine at home - single proc, single GF card - I am quite > happy with Clear Type and the performance of rxvt. > > I sure don't know if you're in a similar situation as I am at work but > if you're using XP and Clear Type it's at least worth a try switching it > off / to Standard. > > Regards > mks > > -- 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/