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Subject: RE: decent fonts for rxvt in cygwin
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:19:26 -0400
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From: "Reid Thompson" <Reid DOT Thompson AT ateb DOT com>
To: "Edward Peschko" <esp5 AT pge DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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try xfontsel

reid


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Peschko [mailto:esp5 AT pge DOT com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:25 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: decent fonts for rxvt in cygwin
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> Ed
> 
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