On 9/28/2018 8:06 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > | From: "Ken Brown" <kbr...@cornell.edu> > | To: "cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com> > | Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 6:32:25 PM > | Subject: XWin: Tiny fonts on high resolution display > > | A Google search shows that this is a very frequently asked question (e.g., > | https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00247.html), but I haven't > found a > | good answer, except perhaps to use Gnome or some other desktop environment. > (I > | haven't tried that yet.) > | > | I just got a new laptop with a 3840x2160 display. When I start the X > server via > | startxwin, xterm and emacs open small windows with tiny fonts. Here are the > | xterm and emacs settings in my .Xresources: > > But none of those are for fonts. With bitmap fonts, you generally can use > 10x20 > (12x24 is not so good). Otherwise, your choice would be a TrueType font > (which > generally have poor coverage of Unicode -- a problem since xterm loads only > one font). > If you don't need to read CJKV, that's okay though... > > With TrueType fonts, you can scale it: > > https://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html#VT100-Widget-Resources:faceSize
Thanks. The 10x20 font was still too small, but I was able to get a reasonable xterm by adding XTerm*faceName: Lucida Console XTerm*faceSize: 24 to .Xresources. The only remaining problem is that the menus are still tiny. I saw https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#tiny_menus, so I changed 'XTerm*geometry: 80x45' to 'XTerm.VT100.geometry: 80x45'. But that didn't help. Do you know how I can fix the menu fonts? Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
