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:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-id:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; q=dns; s=default; b=x+mWP4dqE0N6E97X5VsK+B9f31B+2 MecLGTHeJ34siHygjhJY005UCklZ8HTx4qr2Nvf9KswhsOdhdLUPIf6zMTaWPYN4 /8d/zUYW3sBr7RwUylYzgsdjZXzzlPohPvbJhtBaFqpPIZejcPn6ZEQm3QakgeU/ Ka6kigIm+HayU8= 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:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-id:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; s=default; bh=wRa/nMUqxfL45zgahgHCk0gXzcI=; b=nB3 l73PkqpeY7gMmvGCpnTUizDvj9QIhqUBml/TPF49MHoUKeWe4IICNvWgZNYdPXSu k+PzpZ+Ae4AFO6bTFYE2/ZzWhPv6kASe5B3vv9Nkk5BrNHH8yZEcXKi/yoqsOK2B S30iZk+D4KhUxlHDFoba+xjW38vTrtB0PB58Gcn0= 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=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,MIME_BASE64_BLANKS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: NAM02-SN1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cornell.edu; s=selector1; h=From:Date:Subject:Message-ID:Content-Type:MIME-Version:X-MS-Exchange-SenderADCheck; bh=Jj4JjVhd4qeCjP/2E/LbrJnoLYQ16GQM/V0KcLmuI5k=; b=O7//8uem6020+lewW1oCXOXSP/sNip8vmRWxa43rMkmKEegOJ5r2nWnZdOWwEBHIZTWm/ZFG5ZUoCkPfpPk8jSlfX/FpC+KgEO25rz0orXVePbyFDmfefRZt8jbmPVlvhwpflO0q6buhzUvltkAUqr+dyRYk6ji8V9Vx3M6uOiI= From: Ken Brown To: Thomas Dickey CC: cygwin Subject: Re: XWin: Tiny fonts on high resolution display Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 12:49:32 +0000 Message-ID: <57d99e49-511d-308c-147d-125c30e7f4ee@cornell.edu> References: <20180929000647 DOT GA2323 AT prl-debian8-64 DOT jexium-island DOT net> <0e46d9b2-eb1c-f062-643b-1f6fe90b3037 AT cornell DOT edu> <587877532 DOT 53563 DOT 1538224490561 DOT JavaMail DOT zimbra AT his DOT com> In-Reply-To: <587877532.53563.1538224490561.JavaMail.zimbra@his.com> user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 authentication-results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=kbrown AT cornell DOT edu; received-spf: None (protection.outlook.com: cornell.edu does not designate permitted sender hosts) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-ID: <9CAA77D9C1D2724B9EA0B23BEC478A96 AT namprd04 DOT prod DOT outlook DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id w8TCnpYT014548 On 9/29/2018 8:34 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > ----- 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). No, I don't need it. I never use the menus anyway, so maybe I'll just disable the toolbar. But maybe someone else (Eliot?) would find it useful. Ken -- 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