On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:42:02PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:47:45PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > > I run mutt on Cygwin in a Windows console window > > > > Yuck. Why? :) > > Well I'm glad you asked that question... :-) > > > FWIW, you can run startx (in cygwin) and use a proper > > xterm, and save a lot of hastle. The windows console is next to > > useless to me, and I find the fonts are horrible at the sizes I'd > > prefer to have them. Anything comfortable to read is too large. > > I'm probably older than most people on this list, and I was > never able to reproduce the nice, large, readable interface of a > Windows console window with 10x18 Raster fonts in a 120x45 > window, black letters on grey, in any xterm window, though I'm > sure it could be done if I had fiddled long enough with the > settings.
If the font is named 10x18, then: xterm -font "10x18" -fg black -bg grey -geometry 120x45 & I don't have a 10x18, but I have a 10x20, and substituting that in worked. For rxvt-unicode, -font becomes -fn. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.
