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Re: Ugly xterm fonts on LCD
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:51:01 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Ugly xterm fonts on LCD
- References: <41FA8730.2070605@merl.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, David Rudolph wrote:
> I?m running xterm under Cygwin on my new Dell Windows XP with an LCD
> monitor (1280x1024). The fonts look ugly. I've tried every imaginable
> font, I've Googled and tried various solutions suggested such as putting
> :unscaled in the font path, but nothing changes. When I do ?xdpyinfo |
> grep RENDER?, I get nothing, which apparently means that I can't use
> truetype fonts. My video card is a Radeon X300 SE. Anyone know how to
> make the fonts look better?
I can not verify that until monday. But render should be enabled. Start xterm
with xterm -fa Courier to use clientside fonts.
bye
ago
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