decent fonts for rxvt in cygwin

[Andrew DeFaria]

Edward Peschko wrote:

> I must have mis-installed cygwin-xfree.. don't see xwin in any of my 
> cygwin directories I installed, and I'm pretty sure I installed 
> Xfree86. I use exceed as my xwindow server, so it never really phased me.

You might wish to try reinstalling XFree86. Personally I'd use it over 
Exceed (though perhaps Exceed might be better performance-wise).

>>> rxvt is resizable via the normal mechanism of moving the mouse to 
>>> the corner, clicking and dragging.
>>
> well, like I said, that's what I do, except I use -geometry 90x90 to 
> see how it looks at that size and hit 'return' per font. Preferably I 
> automate with 'resize' it so I filter out the obvious candidates and 
> don't have to look through hundreds/thousands of fonts. I don't see an 
> equivalent program to resize on cygwin though.

Not sure about your usage of resize. Guess I just never used resize in 
that fashion. Anyways you can rxvt -fn <fontname> -geometry 90x90...

> Anyways something is out of whack. xlsfonts doesn't return (for me) 
> any lucida console entries. It might be that because I'm using exceed 
> as an xserver, and hence getting the wrong list of fonts. In any case, 
> my bet is that the fonts that look perfectly fine on XFree86 look 
> suboptimal on exceed. Looks like I grep through the /usr/X1lR6 
> directory for pcf files..

AFAIK Lucida Console is a Windows font. Don't discount Windows fonts as 
some are OK. And I would think it would be easier for an X server to 
render a native Windows font than to convert an X font (though I could 
be wrong).

In general though you are only looking for a font or two to use for your 
terms. Once found you won't be doing this exercise anymore.

I've always wanted an X (or Windows) application that simply renders 
many fonts for you to look at to choose a good font. Never found such an 
application.

Like I said, Lucida Console is the font I choose (though I could be 
persuaded to use a better font if somebody suggests one).



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