X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: RXVT and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:41:06 -0000 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 * Jeff (Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:04:36 -0800) > I use RXVT because it makes Cygwin accessible to me. Its color and font > support gives me a console window I can *see*, as opposed to the native > Windows console that BASH runs in by default, which I cannot see. Part > of my strategy to increase visibility is to specify a bold font for > -fn/font: and crank up the point size just as large as I can make it > and still have an 80x25 console fit on my screen. > > I probably don't have to tell anyone who uses RXVT that Windows XP > ships with only two usable monospaced fonts: Lucida Console, and > Courier New; I probably also don't have to mention how well a > proportional font (doesn't) work with RXVT. I've been getting by with > Lucida Console-bold, but lately even that has become a little difficult > for me to see. So, I decided to see if I could find a more visible > font. > > I found this useful page at http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ which lists > several monospaced fonts for coders/programmers, with Bitstream Vera > Sans Mono ranked as the best of them. The page provides links, too-- > the Bitstream fonts are available at http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ as > advertised. I then noticed that this font is mentioned in the RXVT > README text, and saw it mentioned in a recent thread on this list as > being the default font in the current Cygwin RXVT. If you like Bitstream fonts then you will like DejaVu fonts - who are based on Bitstream - even more. But beware that your issue might be a issue similar to this: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10693 Thorsten -- 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/