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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:14:14 +0000
From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: MinTTY "vs" rxvt (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3)
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Paul McFerrin wrote:
> 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.

The text foreground colour can be changed on the "Looks" page of the
options. The default is a light grey (191,191,191) in order to leave
room for the bright attribute. Setting it to proper white (255,255,255)
might make a difference. Regarding blurriness, it might be worth trying
the different font smoothing methods (none, anti-aliased, "ClearType").

Andy

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