X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45C24C56.7080207@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:23:50 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061221 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rxvt and "-fn 9x15bold" References: <20070201192906.GA16099@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <20070201192906.GA16099@panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 David Arnstein wrote: > When I launch cygwin's rxvt from within cygwin's X11, I use the option > "-fn 9x15bold". I like the appearance of this font. > > When I launch cygwin's rxvt WITHOUT X11, with "-fn 9x15bold", I do not > get the same font as I get with X11. > > When I launch rxvt WITHOUT X11, with the option "-fn 'Lucida Console-20'", > I do get Lucida font. > > So it appears that my specific issue is that without X11, rxvt cannot > find the font 9x15bold. It does not complain though. > > Is there an alternate name for 9x15bold that I can feed to rxvt? How do > I find it? 9x15bold is an X font. It's only available when you're running X. If you don't run X, you're using Windows fonts. You can see the list of available fonts and sizes by looking at the "Fonts" Control Panel applet. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/