rxvt fonts size setting problem for X/Cygwin

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, faif cn wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I use rxvt in cygwin in dos shell without X. Font size is set on
> ".Xdefaults" as
> "Rxvt*font: Lucida Console-14"
>
> But when I run rxvt in X, the fonts size of rxvt terminal is too
> small. The same setting seems not affect rxvt in X? How can I keep
> fonts as same as big in cygwin dos shell?

First off, if you use rxvt, it's not a DOS shell.

Secondly, X uses a different font selection scheme from W11 (the X
interface wrapper around the native Windows calls that rxvt uses).  W11
uses Windows font names.  For a list of available X fonts, run xlsfonts
(or use xfontsel to select fonts visually).

I don't know of an easy way to dispatch to a font name based on whether
you're running X or native.  You could try playing with window names and
using this as a selector in your .Xdefaults...
	Igor
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