X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:cc:message-id:in-reply-to :references:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=A4riPFs3v/Vo9C7V nCmoqBzsJ//cO61vBJW5bxRmcwMoA1ApUcCVQBdXQBO34vBOECuyNtgaarY3ipv7 thmFJguhdHhDo0CTRO46wjv1xjeA8MUQOOPJq0bM0PyrfrVO5EtUFMSZEjL4ETcE u0RmQwKRXNF0weaEdgI8yLponvQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:cc:message-id:in-reply-to :references:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=kG+fPv7TabL5sPjfzngVe8 GhvtE=; b=A8ktNVcDKe/7qJPNKEFwf1mAj/OytMH7y5j0u1C3VO6ujXH/21JzUQ cAup/3/oDnEfo9YjHNrim5XkafUQWP986Qf2uc394IE4BPmB8CfkayPP4HPjo1aM Xs+iU12tbSS0liWekHt5HX7L7eN5ahJJBJcJK7g9xrqv/MXhg6VP4= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-7.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: smtp-nf-201.his.com Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:34:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Dickey To: Ken Brown Cc: cygwin Message-ID: <587877532.53563.1538224490561.JavaMail.zimbra@his.com> In-Reply-To: <0e46d9b2-eb1c-f062-643b-1f6fe90b3037@cornell.edu> References: <20180929000647 DOT GA2323 AT prl-debian8-64 DOT jexium-island DOT net> <0e46d9b2-eb1c-f062-643b-1f6fe90b3037 AT cornell DOT edu> Subject: Re: XWin: Tiny fonts on high resolution display MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Ken Brown" | To: "Thomas Dickey" | Cc: "cygwin" | Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 10:25:17 PM | Subject: Re: XWin: Tiny fonts on high resolution display | On 9/28/2018 8:06 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: |> ----- Original Message ----- |> | From: "Ken Brown" |> | To: "cygwin" |> | Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 6:32:25 PM |> | Subject: XWin: Tiny fonts on high resolution display |> |> | A Google search shows that this is a very frequently asked question (e.g., |> | https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00247.html), but I haven't found a |> | good answer, except perhaps to use Gnome or some other desktop environment. (I |> | haven't tried that yet.) |> | |> | I just got a new laptop with a 3840x2160 display. When I start the X server via |> | startxwin, xterm and emacs open small windows with tiny fonts. Here are the |> | xterm and emacs settings in my .Xresources: |> |> But none of those are for fonts. With bitmap fonts, you generally can use 10x20 |> (12x24 is not so good). Otherwise, your choice would be a TrueType font (which |> generally have poor coverage of Unicode -- a problem since xterm loads only one |> font). |> If you don't need to read CJKV, that's okay though... |> |> With TrueType fonts, you can scale it: |> |> https://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html#VT100-Widget-Resources:faceSize | | Thanks. The 10x20 font was still too small, but I was able to get a reasonable | xterm by adding | | XTerm*faceName: Lucida Console | XTerm*faceSize: 24 | | to .Xresources. The only remaining problem is that the menus are still tiny. I | saw https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#tiny_menus, so I changed | 'XTerm*geometry: 80x45' to 'XTerm.VT100.geometry: 80x45'. But that didn't | help. Do you know how I can fix the menu fonts? well, you cannot fix those using TrueType fonts, but since those use only ASCII, the poor coverage for 12x24 (the largest bitmap font that I recall) would not be a problem. (I can work out a suitable resource pattern for that, if you need it). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple