On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 07:27:54PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > As a compromise between this and the 10x18 font, you might try this > instead: > > xterm -fn '-*-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
Thank you, Derek! > If you like that, you can replace your XTerm.font resource line with > one that uses this one. It's slightly smaller than the 10x20 font, > but it is bolded and quite legible. I think this font also somewhat > resembles the Windows 10x18 console font, but YMMV. Also note that > you could have different fonts installed than I do (though that's > somewhat unlikely I suppose, for Cygwin/X installs). I'm running rxvt because it does not require me to start Xwindows (which looks not-so-nice in its Cygwin incarnation). Alas, the font resulting from rxvt -fn '-*-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' looks much different, with l o t s o f s p a c e b e t w e e n l e t t e r s... :-( Mutt runs fine with rxvt, but it runs with default colors, so that double- and triple-quoted material is is white or yellow, which is almost impossible to read against the grey. A quick scan of the man pages and Websites for rxvt did not reveal any obvious global fix (such as --color=never for ls). I tried editing .Xdefaults to change all colors except white into black, but that messes up mutt, which opens showing me entirely black menu and index lines. When I have some time, I'll try to find the where the mappings of X colors to features of mutt are defined... > In fact, I quite like this font myself. It even seems that when I > view mail in Korean with the Unicode version of this font, the Korean > characters are displayed properly, which comes as a bit of a surprise. > I might switch to it as my every-day font. That could be useful, as I exchange quite a bit of mail with Korea (though not in Korean). Tom -- Tom Baker <tba...@tbaker.de>