Charles Wilson wrote:
However, with regards to rxvt in native mode, the widely spaced characters you are seeing happens when rxvt can't find, or doesn't understand, the font you specified.
Well, I didn't specify anything. I haven't touched any of /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt, ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources, or given any options on the command line Iused to invoke rxvt. I am using whatever the CygWin packages and installer installed on my machine, which evidently changes in non-intuitive ways when I re-run it to modify the combinations of packages I have installed even though I'm not (consciously) touching any X11 or font-related packages). Just now, I tried installing the ruby package, and as soon as I started rxvt, it started in messed-up form--widely spaced characters, in yellow, on a dark blue background--rather than the way it started immediately before--normally spaced characters, in black, on a white background. Does that color change give any hints regarding what's happening (what unrelated thing got modified when I re-ran cygwin.exe to install Ruby)? Hmm. Those colors seem to match what's in /etc/defaults/etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt: Rxvt*background: #000040 Rxvt*foreground: #ffffbf Rxvt*scrollBar: true Rxvt*scrollBar_right: true Rxvt*font: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--*-160-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 Rxvt*boldfont: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-bold-r-normal--*-160-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 Rxvt*saveLines: 10000 !Rxvt*loginshell: true Rxvt.backspacekey: ^H What's the command to determine which cygwin package installs that file? Is there a dependency problem in that that package does not depend on the package containing the font that that first package depends on? Most importantly, how to I get rvxt to work right (and consistently)? Daniel -- 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/
