Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:16:32 -0500
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Subject: Re: MinTTY "vs" rxvt (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3)
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:00:28PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 03:22:14PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:

Not sure what I'm doing here.

>> Well, it's my main terminal. I tried MinTTY and I'm not sure yet whether
>> it will supplant rxvt for my personal use, but it shows promise.
>>
> 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.
>
> I made the mistake of updating rxvt before and I learned no more updates, 
> please.  Maybe it will help someone what options I use to make my 
> statements more clearer:
>    rxvt --backspacekey ^H -sbt 15 -fg white -bg black -geometry +75+80 -sr
>  -title "TTY$tty$label" -tn ansi -sl 3000 -fn 'Lucida Console-12' -e ksh &
> My 2 cents worth, no more.

You obviously have customized rxvt.  I don't see why MinTTY would be any
different.

And, if you are not going to be updating rxvt it doesn't really matter what
happens with the distribution since you wouldn't see it anyway.

cgf

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