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I have occasionally had the rxvt window enter a display mode where the display font has excessive spacing between each character.  Happened again after one of my recend updates.  I was unable to 'resolve' the problem but I did find the following workaround.
I have occasionally had the rxvt window enter a display mode where the display font has excessive spacing between each character.  Happened again after one of my recend updates.  I was unable to 'resolve' the problem but I did find the following workaround.


Download and install the following font package.  Then invoke rxvt as follows:
Download and install the following font package, 'Lucida Console' [Image:LuconP.zip].  Then invoke rxvt as follows:





Revision as of 10:04, 4 December 2007

rxvt on cygwin

I have occasionally had the rxvt window enter a display mode where the display font has excessive spacing between each character. Happened again after one of my recend updates. I was unable to 'resolve' the problem but I did find the following workaround.

Download and install the following font package, 'Lucida Console' [Image:LuconP.zip]. Then invoke rxvt as follows:


@echo off

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

rxvt -fn "Lucida ConsoleP-12" -fg black -bg white -ls --geometry 120x80