* Jeff (Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:01:16 -0800) > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:41:06 -0000, Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at > thorstenkampe dot de> wrote: > >If you like Bitstream fonts then you will like DejaVu fonts - who are > >based on Bitstream - even more. But beware that your issue might be a > >issue similar to this: > > > >https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10693 > > Thanks for the link. My issue is similar, in that it seems to occur at > one size only, but what actually happens at that size is very > different. > > I read the conversation in this bug report with considerable interest. > There are a few items that I would like to comment upon: > > ------- Comment #3 From Thorsten Kampe 2007-04-21 05:53:19 PST ------- > > >I think, this /might/ be a Cygwin/rxvt bug. Unfortunately I can't > >convince rxvt under Linux to use DejaVu Fonts ("can't load DejaVu Sans > >Mono-17") - so I can't tell whether it's just a Cygwin/rxvt thingy). > > How strange... I had no problems getting my copy of rxvt to accept > 'DejaVu Sans Mono-17' [...]
I couldn't make my *Linux* (Gentoo) rxvt run DejaVu Sans Mono. The syntax to specify fonts under X is quite different (and also totally weird) compared to the Windows syntax. > ------- Comment #4 From Thorsten Kampe 2007-04-21 06:02:29 PST ------- > > >I wouldn't have a problem reporting the bug to the Cygwin rxvt > >maintainer - but as rxvt is AFAIK not actively maintained > > Charles Wilson, the current maintainer of the Cygwin rxvt, appears to > be active on this list. Cygwin rxvt is maintained while the "original" upstream package is not (as far as I know). Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
