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Re: rxvt fonts size setting problem for X/Cygwin
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Leo wrote:
> On 11/22/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, faif cn wrote:
> >
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I use rxvt in cygwin in dos shell without X. Font size is set on
> > > ".Xdefaults" as
> > > "Rxvt*font: Lucida Console-14"
> > >
> > > But when I run rxvt in X, the fonts size of rxvt terminal is too
> > > small. The same setting seems not affect rxvt in X? How can I keep
> > > fonts as same as big in cygwin dos shell?
> >
> > First off, if you use rxvt, it's not a DOS shell.
> >
> > Secondly, X uses a different font selection scheme from W11 (the X
> > interface wrapper around the native Windows calls that rxvt uses). W11
> > uses Windows font names. For a list of available X fonts, run xlsfonts
> > (or use xfontsel to select fonts visually).
>
> Thank you. If I understand you right, the fonts name shown by xlsfonts
> or xfontsel should be used for X.
Yes.
> But I changed .Xdefaults font section by using name listed by xlsfonts,
> the native rxvt fonts changes, whereas X version rxvt doesn't. Am I
> missing your points?
I don't think so. When I do this, the font changes in both the Windows
mode and the X mode (to different things, of course). How do you invoke
the X-mode rxvt? Do you have a script or an alias that passes the -fn
option to rxvt?
Igor
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