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 -- 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/