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
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Tom Baker <[email protected]>
