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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:00:28 -0500
From: Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: MinTTY "vs" rxvt (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3)
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 03:22:14PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>Well, it's my main terminal. I tried MinTTY and I'm not sure yet whether
>it will supplant rxvt for my personal use, but it shows promise.
>
I've been using rxvt for years as my main terminal and just tried using 
minTTY and really prefer not to use it.  You see I'm and old man with 
poor eye sight.  The visual attributes of minTTY aren't the same that I 
use with rxvt.  The Lucida Console (white foreground on black) has less 
contrast as the same font on rxvt.  If I make it bold, it approaches 
nearly the same brightness as rxvt but a little more blurry.  These 
featurea don't go with poor vision.

I made the mistake of updating rxvt before and I learned no more 
updates, please.  Maybe it will help someone what options I use to make 
my statements more clearer:
    rxvt --backspacekey ^H -sbt 15 -fg white -bg black -geometry +75+80 -sr
  -title "TTY$tty$label" -tn ansi -sl 3000 -fn 'Lucida Console-12' -e ksh &
My 2 cents worth, no more.
-Paul

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