getting rxvt to use the same font for both W11 and X11

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Thu Mar 31 02:45:00 GMT 2005


I would like to specify a font for rxvt in ~/.Xdefaults and have it look
the same whether it's using native win32 or X11.  I have added lucida
console to the font path, and I wish to have it be 11 pt.  If I put:

rxvt*font: "-*-lucida console-*-*-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*"

...in .Xdefaults, then the font looks fine for W11 (rxvt started with no
xserver), but it's tiny when started with Xwin running.  Likewise if I
use

rxvt*font: "-*-lucida console-*-*-*-*-*-110-*-*-*-*-*-*"

...in .Xdefaults, then the font looks correct for X11 but looks HUGE for
native windows.  It seems that W11 and X11 seem to have a factor of 100
difference in point sizes.

Is there any clean solution to this, so that I can have the fonts look
the same in both situations?

Brian



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