Re: Cygwin Fonts
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Bharat Ruparel wrote: Hello Igor, I got your contact information while searching through Google and looking for an answer to my quest for using Fonts in cygwin or more correctly Cygwin/X. I must admit that I am new to Cygwin and I don't know much about xwindows except that I have worked within the Solaris environment using the Hummingbird Exceed software quite a bit. Bharat, Sending Cygwin-related questions by personal mail is frowned upon in the Cygwin community. Questions about Cygwin are usually best sent to one of the Cygwin mailing lists (in this case, the cygwin-xfree list -- see http://cygwin.com/lists.html#available-lists). Not only will you get access to more expertise than any one person could provide, but your questions and the answers to them will be archived on the web for others to find. For your convenience, I'm Cc'ing this reply to the appropriate list, and setting Reply-To accordingly. I was trying to use Nedit editor in the Cygwin environment since that is what I was used to at my previous job. To my joy, I found it in the Cygwin installation. However, I have a problem using it in the Cygwin program. The fonts that I get when I execute startx are painfully small for a 50 year old like myself. I am trying to make them bigger and have trouble understanding what needs to be done from the documentation that I see on the Cygwin site. Could you help me out by giving instructions in simple steps that I can use to accomplish this task? If you're asking how to change fonts in nedit, I'd say the Nedit maintainer would be a better person to answer this. If it's the font size of the initial xterm that bothers you, right-click on the xterm window while pressing the Ctrl key, and select Huge from the fonts menu that pops up. You can also edit the .Xdefaults file in your home directory and add the following line to it: XTerm*VT100*font: 10x20 This changes the default font to something larger (the one that you get with Huge, in fact). HTH, Igor P.S. The cygwin-xfree list sets the Reply-To to the list address automatically, so you may want to subscribe to cygwin-xfree to make sure you haven't missed any replies... -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
RE: Cygwin Fonts
Hello Igor, My apologies for sending you a question by personal email, I simply didn't know any better. From now on, I will post my question cygwin-xfree list as you indicated. Thanks for the tip, I was looking to make the fonts in the initial xterm window and what you just told me works great! It would be nice if these things were included in the documentation section somewhere on the Cygwin site. It is a great product which people like myself could benefit from if the information was a bit easier to find. I appreciate your time and effort. Thanks again. Regards, Bharat Ruparel -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:46 AM To: Bharat Ruparel Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Fonts On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Bharat Ruparel wrote: Hello Igor, I got your contact information while searching through Google and looking for an answer to my quest for using Fonts in cygwin or more correctly Cygwin/X. I must admit that I am new to Cygwin and I don't know much about xwindows except that I have worked within the Solaris environment using the Hummingbird Exceed software quite a bit. Bharat, Sending Cygwin-related questions by personal mail is frowned upon in the Cygwin community. Questions about Cygwin are usually best sent to one of the Cygwin mailing lists (in this case, the cygwin-xfree list -- see http://cygwin.com/lists.html#available-lists). Not only will you get access to more expertise than any one person could provide, but your questions and the answers to them will be archived on the web for others to find. For your convenience, I'm Cc'ing this reply to the appropriate list, and setting Reply-To accordingly. I was trying to use Nedit editor in the Cygwin environment since that is what I was used to at my previous job. To my joy, I found it in the Cygwin installation. However, I have a problem using it in the Cygwin program. The fonts that I get when I execute startx are painfully small for a 50 year old like myself. I am trying to make them bigger and have trouble understanding what needs to be done from the documentation that I see on the Cygwin site. Could you help me out by giving instructions in simple steps that I can use to accomplish this task? If you're asking how to change fonts in nedit, I'd say the Nedit maintainer would be a better person to answer this. If it's the font size of the initial xterm that bothers you, right-click on the xterm window while pressing the Ctrl key, and select Huge from the fonts menu that pops up. You can also edit the .Xdefaults file in your home directory and add the following line to it: XTerm*VT100*font: 10x20 This changes the default font to something larger (the one that you get with Huge, in fact). HTH, Igor P.S. The cygwin-xfree list sets the Reply-To to the list address automatically, so you may want to subscribe to cygwin-xfree to make sure you haven't missed any replies... -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
RE: Cygwin Fonts
Ug. Top-posting... Reformatted. On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Bharat Ruparel wrote: -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:46 AM To: Bharat Ruparel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Subject: Re: Cygwin Fonts On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Bharat Ruparel wrote: Hello Igor, I got your contact information while searching through Google and looking for an answer to my quest for using Fonts in cygwin or more correctly Cygwin/X. I must admit that I am new to Cygwin and I don't know much about xwindows except that I have worked within the Solaris environment using the Hummingbird Exceed software quite a bit. Bharat, Sending Cygwin-related questions by personal mail is frowned upon in the Cygwin community. Questions about Cygwin are usually best sent to one of the Cygwin mailing lists (in this case, the cygwin-xfree list -- see http://cygwin.com/lists.html#available-lists). Not only will you get access to more expertise than any one person could provide, but your questions and the answers to them will be archived on the web for others to find. For your convenience, I'm Cc'ing this reply to the appropriate list, and setting Reply-To accordingly. I was trying to use Nedit editor in the Cygwin environment since that is what I was used to at my previous job. To my joy, I found it in the Cygwin installation. However, I have a problem using it in the Cygwin program. The fonts that I get when I execute startx are painfully small for a 50 year old like myself. I am trying to make them bigger and have trouble understanding what needs to be done from the documentation that I see on the Cygwin site. Could you help me out by giving instructions in simple steps that I can use to accomplish this task? If you're asking how to change fonts in nedit, I'd say the Nedit maintainer would be a better person to answer this. If it's the font size of the initial xterm that bothers you, right-click on the xterm window while pressing the Ctrl key, and select Huge from the fonts menu that pops up. You can also edit the .Xdefaults file in your home directory and add the following line to it: XTerm*VT100*font: 10x20 This changes the default font to something larger (the one that you get with Huge, in fact). HTH, Igor P.S. The cygwin-xfree list sets the Reply-To to the list address automatically, so you may want to subscribe to cygwin-xfree to make sure you haven't missed any replies... Hello Igor, My apologies for sending you a question by personal email, I simply didn't know any better. From now on, I will post my question cygwin-xfree list as you indicated. Bharat, No need to apologize. Proper netiquette is different in different online communities. No way to know them all... Also, please review the available Cygwin lists for future posting. This list (cygwin-xfree) is for questions that relate to Cygwin/X. If you have general Cygwin questions, please use the main Cygwin list. Thanks for the tip, I was looking to make the fonts in the initial xterm window and what you just told me works great! It would be nice if these things were included in the documentation section somewhere on the Cygwin site. It is a great product which people like myself could benefit from if the information was a bit easier to find. FYI, this information was in no way Cygwin-specific. A Google search for xterm fonts finds lots of recipes for this in the first page of matches. For this kind of information, the Cygwin/X FAQ is a good place to look. The commands I listed come almost directly from the xterm man page (see the RESOURCES section and the fontMenu part of the MENUS section). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
