How to launch an rxvt terminal window with Monospace font

[JOHNER Jean 066030]

Hello,

Thank you for all the answers to my original request below. This was very instructive.
In conclusion:
- to get middle-mouse paste of the selection with Mintty, Options/Mouse/copy on select had to be checked, which is not the default.
- Mintty behaves much better than the other consoles (rxvt, DOS, putty) when using vim on a ssh connection
 . Mouse selection works (it does not with DOS)
 . The keys CTRL-Home/End, Ctrl-PageUp/Down, Ctrl-Up/Down are recognized (without requiring mapping of the escape sequences).
- It seems that Monospace font is not available with non-X11 applications. Now my question is:

How to launch an xterm window with Monospace font ?

Typing xterm -fn "Monospace" gives an error message.

Best regards,

Jean Johner
 
-----Message d'origine-----
De : cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] De la part de Jeremy Bopp
Envoyé : mardi 27 juillet 2010 16:13
À : cygwin@cygwin.com
Objet : Re: How to launch an rxvt terminal window with Monospace font

On 7/27/2010 9:04 AM, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to this mailing list. Sorry if my mail does not conform
> strickly to your standards.
> 
> The default command to launch an rxvt terminal is the following:
> 
> C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -fn "Lucida Console-14" -tn
> rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash --login
> 
> I would like to use Monospace font instead of Lucida Console. I tried:
> 
> C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -fn "Monospace-14" -tn
> rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash --login
> 
> It results in the use of a double-spaced font which is not Monospace.
> Replacing "Monospace" with any string gives the same result.
> 
> NB: the Monospace font is the one which is used by default when
> launching gvim (with XWin activated).

I don't know the answer to your question, but have you tried using
mintty instead of rxvt?  Mintty has an options dialog which includes a
font chooser, and is better all around than rxvt.

-Jeremy

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