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Re: rxvt fonts size setting problem for X/Cygwin


On 11/22/05, Igor Pechtchanski <> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, you are right. I did have script with -fn which messed up this. many thanks

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