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Re: Error messages and problems with font size
Hi,
thanks for annswering
> >
> > SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\unix\bin;c:\unix\usr\X11R6\bin
>
> Yes
>
> BUT
>
> PATH=%PATH%;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\X11R6\bin
>
> Is DOS style, example, as no drive letter prefix, it means,
> search on the same disk, starting from root. It gives
> a little bit freedom that users would not have to edit drive letter
> in case they install on a disk other than C:\
Sorry, I didn't make myself clear, the path in the startxwin.bat file is :
SET PATH=%PATH%;\usr\bin\X11
the X11 binary directory is \usr\X11R6\bin.
>
> A Search on mail archive will give you the answer... Harold Hunt posted
> a millions times answer to this problem. I would rather let you search
mail
> archive
> for this then to repeat Harold fixes.
Thanks for the pointer, I will search through the archives.
>
> The following would do:
> xterm -sb -sl 2048 -font 7x13bold
>
> Or if you want to use Bash from xterm, use the following command:
>
> C:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c "nohup /bin/bash -c ""/bin/bash -c
'xterm -sb -sl
> 2048 -font 7x13bold -sb -e /bin/tcsh.termcap'&""&"
>
>
> This one is from mail archive too, a couple of time, I and other
> users posted this.
>
> Best way to check available fonts is to cd to
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
>
> then do a
>
> ls
>
> and choose the font you would like to use.
>
> Suhaib
thanks a lot,
Mike