How to display X fonts with a typographical font sample
Hi there This is probably an X beginners question. I want to see the fonts which are installed on my X system. I tried xlsfonts, but as a command line tool it only lists the *names* of the fonts not a *font sample*. Hoe do I get a list of the fonts with some text written in that particular font? is there an X program for this? Many thanks, Leo -- 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/
In an X app how can I access the window menu via a keyboard shortcut?
I'm trying to set up my X environment under MS Windows in a MS Windows kind of way. So e.g. in an X application running rootless with the XWin Server, how can I access for the main window menu via keyboard shortcuts? I mean the standard menu wihich you get by clicking in the top left corner of the window. In normal Windows apps Alt-Space opens that menu and e.g. typing than n minimizes the window (very handy!). How can I do this for an X app? -- 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/
Fonts under X in Emacs' menus
Hi there I made the switch to Cygwin/X Emacs and the font for the menus is very big and (to my knowledge) not easily adjusted with emacs functions. Is there a way via X to modify the menus and make the font smaller? Many thanks, Leo -- 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: Fonts under X in Emacs' menus
On 12/03/2012, at 7:26 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Leo wrote: I made the switch to Cygwin/X Emacs and the font for the menus is very big and (to my knowledge) not easily adjusted with emacs functions. In my .Xdefaults I have Emacs.FontBackend: xft Emacs.font: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 11 and Emacs in X looks just fine. From my understanding, with these values in your .Xdefaults you set only the main font, but not the font in the menus. -- 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: rxvt fonts size setting problem for X/Cygwin
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/
Re: rxvt fonts size setting problem for X/Cygwin
On 11/23/05, Charles Wilson wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I don't know of an easy way to dispatch to a font name based on whether you're running X or native. You could try playing with window names and using this as a selector in your .Xdefaults... Igor Here's what I do: (1) ~/.Xdefaults has the following (if you ignore the silly mailer line wrapping): rxvt*background:#40 rxvt*foreground:#bf rxvt*scrollBar: true rxvt*scrollBar_right: true rxvt*font: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 rxvt*boldfont: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 rxvt*saveLines: 1 rxvt*loginshell:true rxvt.backspacekey: ^H (2) I have a shortcut to start rxvt-X with the following target (where 'runrxvt.exe' is a copy of run.exe): C:\cygwin\bin\runrxvt.exe -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 -tn rxvt-cygwin -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i One thing I haven't worked out is, if I click this shortcut with no X server running, I get a gigantic rxvt-native window with absolutely huge font. But that's my error; I just close the window, start the X server, and go again. Problem solved. (3) I have a shortcut to start rxvt-native with the following target (ditto runrxvt.exe): C:\cygwin\bin\runrxvt.exe -display :0 -fn Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-16 -tn rxvt-cygwin-native -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i The colors and other settings from the .Xdefaults file are actually used by both versions -- but the rxvt-native one uses the command line -fn font instead of the .Xdefaults value. (I also have 'rxvt' aliased depending on the current value of $TERM, so that subsidiary rxvt windows launched from the command line 'inherit' X-ness or Native-ness, but that's a different issue). -- Chuck Great! Thanks, I am using two shortcuts now and the native one has -fn to overwrite value on .Xdefault. That works. Thank you all for your response! Leo -- 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: rxvt fonts size setting problem for X/Cygwin
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. 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? -- 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/
Try to make minimal XServer
Hello. I'd like to run X-apps on the remote Unix and see them on my notebook with CygWin XServer. The simpliest installation gives workable X, but suffer almost 100M I've got the xwin.exe itsef and added its libs (cygfreetype-6.dll cygwin1.dll cygX11-6.dll cygz.dll). Now it tries to start but cannot found fonts *** Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' *** What exactly it need? FAQ says reinstall X-fonts pakage, but it isn't a way in my case :) Thanx!
