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This has probably been asked before, but how can I set the font
in the MSys window (and what fonts are available)?  I can see in
the msys.bat file that the shell is started with a -fn option,
but I have no idea what is available in the line of fonts, nor
how to specify them.

FWIW: in my _gvimrc, I have the GUI font set to
Lucida_Console:h9:cANSI, which results in the font I want.  I
tried replacing the '-fn Courier-12' with '-fn Lucida_Console-9'
in the .bat; this gave more or less the font I wanted, but with
an extra blank after each character.  I seem to recall having
had similar problems sometime in the past with vim, and I think
that it is the cANSI which does the trick.  But how do I specify
this for MSys?

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Re: [Mingw-msys] Setting font for MSys window From: Michael DOUBEZ <michael.doubez@fr...> - 2008-04-15 10:55 James Kanze a écrit : > This has probably been asked before, but how can I set the font > in the MSys window (and what fonts are available)? I can see in > the msys.bat file that the shell is started with a -fn option, > but I have no idea what is available in the line of fonts, nor > how to specify them. > > FWIW: in my _gvimrc, I have the GUI font set to > Lucida_Console:h9:cANSI, which results in the font I want. I > tried replacing the '-fn Courier-12' with '-fn Lucida_Console-9' > in the .bat; this gave more or less the font I wanted, but with > an extra blank after each character. I seem to recall having > had similar problems sometime in the past with vim, and I think > that it is the cANSI which does the trick. But how do I specify > this for MSys? > I guess Lucida_Console is a multibyte font and not well handled by rxvt (it requires ASCII fonts). Switching to a plain Win32 Console and changing the font is likely to be easier. Myself, I use Console2 (found on sourceforge) that decorate win32 consoles to allow tabbed widows and easy resize. http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ A little change in the msys.bat launcher: (I put Console2 in a /opt/Console2 directory at the root of msys) ----------------------------- #line 40 if EXIST bin\nul cd bin if EXIST ..\opt\Console2\Console.exe goto startconsole if EXIST rxvt.exe goto startrxvt if EXIST sh.exe goto startsh echo Cannot find the Console.exe, rxvt.exe or sh.exe binary -- aborting. pause exit 1 rem If you don't want to use Console then rename the file Console.exe to something rem else. Then sh.exe will be used instead. :startconsole start ..\opt\Console2\Console.exe -w MSYS -c ..\opt\Console2\console.xml -t bash exit -------------------------------- The console.xml file is generated from Console2. The relevant part to Msys is in tabs: --------------------------- <tabs> <tab title="bash"> <console shell="sh.exe --login -i" init_dir=""/> <cursor style="0" r="255" g="255" b="255"/> <background type="0" r="0" g="0" b="0"> <image file="" relative="0" extend="0" position="0"> <tint opacity="0" r="0" g="0" b="0"/> </image> </background> </tab> ... ---------------------------- Michael

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