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List:       cygwin-xfree
Subject:    Re: Error messages and problems with font size
From:       "Mike Davies" <mike.davies () epid ! eurotherm ! co ! uk>
Date:       2000-10-24 12:19:45
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Hi,

thanks for annswering

> >
> > SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\unix\bin;c:\unix\usr\X11R6\bin
>
> Yes
>
> BUT
>
> PATH=%PATH%;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\X11R6\bin
>
> Is DOS style, example, as no drive letter prefix, it means,
> search on the same disk, starting from root.    It gives
> a little bit freedom that users would not have to edit drive letter
> in case they install on a disk other than C:\

Sorry,  I didn't make myself clear,  the path in the startxwin.bat file is :

SET PATH=%PATH%;\usr\bin\X11

the X11 binary directory is \usr\X11R6\bin.


>
> A Search on mail archive will give you the answer... Harold Hunt posted
> a millions times answer to this problem.  I would rather let you search
mail
> archive
> for this then to repeat Harold fixes.

Thanks for the pointer,   I will search through the archives.

>
> The following would do:
> xterm  -sb -sl 2048 -font 7x13bold
>
> Or if you want to use Bash from xterm, use the following command:
>
> C:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c "nohup /bin/bash -c ""/bin/bash -c
'xterm  -sb -sl
> 2048 -font 7x13bold -sb -e /bin/tcsh.termcap'&""&"
>
>
> This one is from mail archive too, a couple of time, I and other
> users posted this.
>
> Best way to check available fonts is to cd to
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
>
> then do a
>
> ls
>
> and choose the font you would like to use.
>
> Suhaib

thanks a lot,


Mike

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