shell properties
Hello, when I do a startx, I get a new window shell with properties different from the one on which I typed startx. The problem is I want to change the font size on this new window and I do not know how. Also, is it possibly to directly open x11 without opening normal cygwin first? 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/
xterm
When I try to run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l from the cygwin shell I get an error that says xterm Xt error: Can't open display DISPLAY is not set Also, how can I get the replies to this message e-mailed to me? -- 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/
Changing the font size
I tried to change the font size with the option -fs after the xterm command however xterm did not recognize that option even though it appeared in man xterm. I am guessing that it was just not compiled into the cygwin version of xterm. Is there any other way to accomplish this. I could just set the -fn option which stands for font name and use a font that has a large standard size but someone would need to explain to me how to set that up! I just want to get the shell larger in general so it does not hurt my eyes. Maybe there is another way just to scale everything up? 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/
font and screen size
I tried to change the font size with the option -fs after the xterm command however xterm did not recognize that option even though it appeared in man xterm. I am guessing that it was just not compiled into the cygwin version of xterm. Is there any other way to accomplish this. I could just set the -fn option which stands for font name and use a font that has a large standard size but someone would need to explain to me how to set that up! I just want to get the shell larger in general so it does not hurt my eyes. Maybe there is another way just to scale everything up? 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/
Re: font and screen size
That is weird. I do not have a .Xdefaults in my home directory. I do have a .Xauthority-c file, which is empty. I downloaded it pretty recently, maybe we are working with different versions. On 9/5/07, Angelo Graziosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my $HOME/.Xdefaults I have: ! -[ xft ] - Xft*antialias: true Xft*autohint: true ! -[ xterm ] - XTerm*background: Black XTerm*foreground: LightGray XTerm*scrollBar:true XTerm*rightScrollBar: true XTerm*faceName: BitStream Vera Sans Mono XTerm*faceSize: 14 You can try also faceSize 10 or 12. Cheers, Angelo. --- Angelo Graziosi: http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi ...d'orgoglio spezzato inseguendo il desiderio del cuore Egdar Lee MASTERS, Antologia di Spoon River -- 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/
Re: font and screen size
OK. I think it was not working because I was just appending options to %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l in the startx batch file which for some reason does not work for any option I append (the shell just dies quickly). One interesting thing I found is that if I replace the %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l in the startx batch file with xterm -fn 12X24 I get the large font size however it opens onto my Windows desktop not my cygwin hierarchy which is in a different drive. It opens into the correct drive but with the small font with %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l. How can I get it to open with the large font size in the correct directory? On 9/5/07, Cole Radcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is weird. I do not have a .Xdefaults in my home directory. I do have a .Xauthority-c file, which is empty. I downloaded it pretty recently, maybe we are working with different versions. On 9/5/07, Angelo Graziosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my $HOME/.Xdefaults I have: ! -[ xft ] - Xft*antialias: true Xft*autohint: true ! -[ xterm ] - XTerm*background: Black XTerm*foreground: LightGray XTerm*scrollBar:true XTerm*rightScrollBar: true XTerm*faceName: BitStream Vera Sans Mono XTerm*faceSize: 14 You can try also faceSize 10 or 12. Cheers, Angelo. --- Angelo Graziosi: http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi ...d'orgoglio spezzato inseguendo il desiderio del cuore Egdar Lee MASTERS, Antologia di Spoon River -- 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/
scroll bars
Thanks for the help with the font size. Now why does why does %RUN% XWin -silent-dup-error -scrollbars give me a terminal with no scroll bars? -- 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/
Re: scroll bars
%RUN% xterm -fn 10x20 -scrollbar -e /usr/bin/bash -l does not work for me I also tried it with -scrollBar -- 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/
re: scroll
What are the XWin server options you are using with that Reid? Mine which are %RUN% XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error -multiwindow give some weird object that looks like a scrollbar on the side but it does not allow you to scroll On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 00:22 -0500, Cole Radcliffe wrote: %RUN% xterm -fn 10x20 -scrollbar -e /usr/bin/bash -l does not work for me I also tried it with -scrollBar That's because -scrollbar is not a valid command line parameter tor xterm. %RUN% xterm -fn 10x20 -sb -sl 2500 -e /usr/bin/bash -l see xterm -help -- 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/
re: scroll
Cole Radcliffe wrote: What are the XWin server options you are using with that Reid? Mine which are %RUN% XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error -multiwindow give some weird object that looks like a scrollbar on the side but it does not allow you to scroll my options are the same - XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error Are you saying that you get a scrollbar with those options? Because I definitely do not! What exactly is weird? Email me directly a png of the xterm window. click in the terminal window and hold down your enter key until your buffer starts scrolling up -- then you can use the left and right mouse buttons to scroll up/down the xterm buffer by clicking above/below the scrollbar slider ( i.e. you will NOT be able to scroll until you've ENTERED enough to cause buffering to occur BTW, how would one set up a separate email folder or something that would catch all of my cygwin-xfree mail in my g-mail account? -- 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/
