Message-Id: <200505312032.j4VKW45W013853@delorie.com> 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 Reply-To: From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: Subject: RE: Size of CygWin Display Font Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 15:31:50 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" In-Reply-To: <52BA675BF5A226458392EB21207B522A0142A2AB@iu-mssg-mbx06.exchange.iu.edu> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j4VKW45W013853 > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Khadhrawi, Mohammad > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:25 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Size of CygWin Display Font > > Dear Sir/Madam, > > I am a new user of CygWin.  I've just finished installing it. > Now, I want to change (enlarge) the size of the CygWin display font. > > I did some readings on your web site and others.  I found > that I need .profile or .bashrc files.  However, I cannot > find either of these files. > You have to create them in your $HOME directory. > Is there another way to accomplish the change I want?  How? > > Please let me know if you have a direct way to affect this > change or if you know of a site that described the method. > >   The super-short answer: - Install Cygwin's rxvt. - Create a Windows shortcut to it. - In the shortcut's Properties->Shortcut->Target, make it look something like this: "C:\unix\bin\rxvt.exe -tn rxvt-cygwin-native -sr -sl 1000 -fn "Lucida Console-bold-14" -e bash --login -I" The '-fn "Lucida Console-bold-14"' part sets the font and its size. > Many thanks in advance. > > Cheers, > Mohammad Khadhrawi > -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/