This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-xfree
mailing list for the Cygwin XFree86 project.
font issues on Windows 7?
- From: "Michael Feig" <feig at msu dot edu>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:46:07 -0500
- Subject: font issues on Windows 7?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi!
I have a problem with spurious pixels showing up in my xterm window
with the latest 1.7-beta on Windows 7.
I open a new xterm (after starting Xwin in multiwindow mode) with:
xterm -sb -sl 1000 +tb -fg white -bg black -font
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--20-140-100-100-m-110-iso8859-1
Initially, all is well, but eventually I get more and more spurious
pixel-size dots on the left-most line of a character box. Usually,
this affects only the first column, but I have seen it in other columns as
well. It's a bit hard to describe but the net effect is that
after using a window for a while there is effectively an irregularly dotted
line between the left scrollbar and the first character column,
and typically the prompt '$' will have a few dots on the left side of the
character. It may not show up with a white-background
window and it's not really a big deal but it does get annoying after a
while.
I never seen this problem before when I used previous versions of Cygwin/X
on Windows XP.
Does anybody else have a similar experience?
Thanks,
Michael.
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/
FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/