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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:00:04 -0800
To: Alec <alec314159 AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: rxvt & custom fonts
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Alec,

Cygwin uses Windows' fonts. The only exception I know of is the TeX 
software, which, as with all TeX software, uses its own fonts.

To select a particular point size, append a hyphen and a decimal integer 
point size to the font's name as used and reported by Windows in the 
"Fonts" folder (under Control Panels, at least in Win 2K).

For example, here's how I start RXVT on a 1280x1024 monitor:

D:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -g 110x89+485+-1 -bg #dddddd -fg #000000 -fn "Lucida 
Console-11" -sr -sl 5000 -tn rxvt -vb -e /bin/bash --login -i

You may or may not have Lucida Console on your system. I cannot recall if 
that's one of the fonts I downloaded from the MS web site or if it was a 
built-in font on Windows 2000.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 23:12 2002-02-27, Alec wrote:
>Hi
>
>Under UNIX, I can do xlsfonts to see what fonts are available and then use 
>those while launching rxvt with the "-fn" option. Is there any way to find 
>out which fonts are available to Cygwin rxvt?
>
>Thanks
>Alec


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