RE: Cygwin Fonts

["Bharat Ruparel" <Bharat dot Ruparel at Systinet dot com>]

Hello Igor,
My apologies for sending you a question by personal email, I simply didn't
know any better.  From now on, I will post my question cygwin-xfree list as
you indicated.
Thanks for the tip, I was looking to make the fonts in the initial xterm
window and what you just told me works great!  It would be nice if these
things were included in the documentation section somewhere on the Cygwin
site.  It is a great product which people like myself could benefit from if
the information was a bit easier to find.
I appreciate your time and effort.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Bharat Ruparel

-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu] 
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:46 AM
To: Bharat Ruparel
Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin Fonts

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Bharat Ruparel wrote:

> Hello Igor,
>
> I got your contact information while searching through Google and
> looking for an answer to my quest for using Fonts in cygwin or more
> correctly Cygwin/X.  I must admit that I am new to Cygwin and I don't
> know much about xwindows except that I have worked within the Solaris
> environment using the Hummingbird Exceed software quite a bit.

Bharat,

Sending Cygwin-related questions by personal mail is frowned upon in the
Cygwin community.  Questions about Cygwin are usually best sent to one of
the Cygwin mailing lists (in this case, the cygwin-xfree list -- see
<http://cygwin.com/lists.html#available-lists>).  Not only will you get
access to more expertise than any one person could provide, but your
questions and the answers to them will be archived on the web for others
to find.

For your convenience, I'm Cc'ing this reply to the appropriate list, and
setting Reply-To accordingly.

> I was trying to use Nedit editor in the Cygwin environment since that is
> what I was used to at my previous job.  To my joy, I found it in the
> Cygwin installation.  However, I have a problem using it in the Cygwin
> program. The fonts that I get when I execute "startx" are painfully
> small for a 50 year old like myself.  I am trying to make them bigger
> and have trouble understanding what needs to be done from the
> documentation that I see on the Cygwin site.  Could you help me out by
> giving instructions in simple steps that I can use to accomplish this
> task?

If you're asking how to change fonts in nedit, I'd say the Nedit
maintainer would be a better person to answer this.  If it's the font size
of the initial xterm that bothers you, right-click on the xterm window
while pressing the Ctrl key, and select "Huge" from the fonts menu that
pops up.  You can also edit the .Xdefaults file in your home directory and
add the following line to it:

XTerm*VT100*font: 10x20

This changes the default font to something larger (the one that you get
with "Huge", in fact).

HTH,
	Igor
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