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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: decent fonts for rxvt in cygwin
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:07:17 -0700
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Edward Peschko wrote:

> hey,
>
> I've been searching for decent fonts in cygwin, and haven't found a 
> really good method
> for doing so.
>
> On solaris, I do a xlsfonts, pipe it to a file, and write a script to 
> cycle through the fonts at an obscenely high geometry value (ex: 
> 500x500). Because the windowing system prevents such a large screen, 
> it crops the windows as they are displaying. I then do a resize on the 
> window, and get a list of fonts with corresponding  sizes.
>
> I then look at the fonts with reasonable values, aiming for two 
> windows, 90x90 (which my monitor can reasonably support, 
> resolution-wise). So far, the best fit I've found on solaris is 6x9.
>
> On cygwin its a different story though. I saw xlsfonts, but there 
> doesn't seem to be an equivalent to 'resize'. 'xwininfo' is available, 
> but it doesn't have an option to print the information about the 
> current window.
>
> So, right now, I'm scrolling through the 2000 or so fonts returned by 
> xlsfonts, manually looking through each one.
>
> Any better way to do this?

Control Panel: Fonts?

Run Xwin.exe? Proceed as on Solaris.

Personally I use:

*font:                          "Lucida Console-*-16"

Note you could start an X server then script though:

rxvt -fn "$font_name"

rxvt is resizable via the normal mechanism of moving the mouse to the 
corner, clicking and dragging.



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