Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:07:37 +0200 From: "M . N ." To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Fonts & rxvt (again!) Message-ID: <20020815080737.A6198@gonzo.uni-weimar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i Mark Sheppard wrote: > > to the left and right of each character typed. For example, > > if I type $ ls -Fla > > it looks something like $ |l|s| |-|F|l|a| > Under XP you do this: > > Control Panel -> Display -> Appearance -> Effects... > > then set "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" > to "Standard" rather than "Clear Type". I've not seen this problem > occur under 2000. unfortunately, afaik there's no veritable solution yet! see earlier posting from Philip Flip Kromer, dated april 2002, covering this XP bug: > ... that it is because Windows with cleartype lies about how to > compute a bounding box for a font but MS will not share the > information. File under "yet another example of why the DOJ consent > degree sucks." i found out that smoothing works in a rough-and-ready way with the "courier new" font, but pay attention to a suitable font size. for instance you may invoke rxvt like this rxvt.exe -g 100x40 -fb 'Courier New-15' -fn 'Courier New-15' (you can use the "system" windows font instead as well.) note that this is merely a lame workaround which does not completely avoid unwanted graphical gubbish on the shell... as "courier new" isn't a quality screen font like "andale mono" or "lucida sans unicode" which i personally employed so far, some formatting (done with PS1) will look weird, especially when scrolling. have a look at the ssh client "SecureCRT" of VanDyke software inc. ( http://www.vandyke.com ). this tool lets you configure many properties of the console's appearance. i think, vandyke had a similar appearance problem with an earlier version, but they obviously managed fixing it. within early betas of xp some ms apps had also been concerned by the "subpixel anti-aliasing" bug, microsoft solved that later on - at least for the native os programs. maybe someone from VanDyke software inc. reads this who can offer any help? [mn] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/