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Charles Wilson wrote:
> Daniel Barclay wrote:
> However, I suggest rather than blindly re-installing/un-installing 
> packages at random

Hey, I wasn't randomly installing and uninstalling packages.  My setup was
seemingly working fine until I installed some unrelated package (Ruby) and then
rxvt changed behavior.  Something in the overall installation (running CygWin.exe)
broke my rxvt setup.  That sounds like something is wrong in selected-package
management in CygWin.exe (most likely its user interface (i.e., not making it
clear what is happening)).  [Now that I see your hyphothesis below:  Okay,
it's probably not the type of UI problem I thought (unclear package selection
implications), but now I wonder if it displays post-install script messages.]


> , you instead read the documentation.
> 
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-20050409.README


Where's the documentation on CygWin.exe and things such as whether it remembers
previous selections (no, right?), and how to add a package without touching
anything else (except also installing what it depends on, of course).



>> Just now, I tried installing the ruby package, and as soon as I 
>> started rxvt,
>> it started in messed-up form--widely spaced characters, in yellow, on 
>> a dark
>> blue background--rather than the way it started immediately 
>> before--normally
>> spaced characters, in black, on a white background.
> 
> "before" == default when rxvt can't find, and is not explicitly given, 
> any configuration information at all.
 >
 > "after" == rxvt found the default system app-defaults file
 > (/etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt) but you do not have the fonts that it
 > specifies.
 >
>...
>> Does that color change give any hints regarding what's happening (what
>> unrelated thing got modified when I re-ran cygwin.exe to install Ruby)?
> 
> My guess is that rxvt's own postinstall script, which is supposed to 
> copy /etc/defaults/etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt into the actual 
> /etc/X11/app-defaults/ directory failed the first time you ran setup. 
> Then second time you ran setup, it tried again to run all the 
> post-install scripts that had not yet succeeded. This second time, it 
> worked, and you are now the proud owner of an /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt 
> file, which rxvt.exe now finds.

Ah, okay, that sounds like a good theory.  I'll see if I can confirm that
that's what's happening.



> Change the two lines that start with Rxvt*font and Rxvt*boldfont in 
> /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt with the following ...
> ...

Is there a non-X11 command to list names of and show samples of the available
fonts?  (Or do I need to run X11 to do that?)


Thanks for cutting through the confusion caused by the other misleading answers
I got--and especially for explaining the core of what is or might be happening,
rather that just saying to install fonts.

Daniel

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