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How to get anti-aliased fonts for Cygwin with urxvt

Date: 2007-09-25  |   Tags: cygwin, urxvt

urxvt, or rxvt-unicode, is a better alternative to rxvt and xterm that supports xft (read anti-aliased) fonts. Here's how to make your terminal pretty:

You need: Cygwin with X, urxvt, and fontconfig (all available through Cygwin's setup utility)
  1. To see the list of available fonts run: $ fc-list
  2. Select a font and put it in your ~/.Xdefaults file. e.g. 
    URxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=12
Urxvt*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=12:style=Bold
  3. Run: $ urxvt
For reference, here is the list of fonts I got: 
Bitstream Charter:style=Bold
Bitstream Charter:style ...
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Cygwin, X, ratposoin, screen, rxvt setup

Date: 2007-09-04  |   Modified: 2008-09-07  |   Tags: cygwin, ratpoison, urxvt   |   4 Comments

Here are my configuration files for my current Cygwin, X, ratpoison, screen, urxvt, bash setup.

General Cygwin and bash
  • I changed filename completion to be case-insensitive since we're on Windows. To do this, see the last line in ~/.bashrc and the last line in ~/.inputrc below.
  • I changed the "/cygdrive" prefix to just "/". To do this, type this command once: "mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /"
  • I added aliases to use "grep" and "ls" with color. And I added aliases to start various windows applications. See ~/.bashrc.

urxvt
  • urxvt (rxvt-unicode) is a better alternative to rxvt and xterm. See the ~.Xdefaults file ...
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My software tools list

Date: 2007-08-10  |   Modified: 2008-11-03  |   Tags: c, colinux, conkeror, cygwin, django, eclipse, emacs, linux, mercurial, preferences, python, subversion, ubuntu, urxvt, wmii   |   2 Comments

Inspired by Mark Pilgrim's 2006 Essentials list, below is a list of my current software tools. If you notice a lot of "I switched from ..." statements, keep in mind that I am a programmer who likes shiny things.

Other lists:
Category Currently using Comments
Operating System Ubuntu 8.04, Windows Vista Work Desktop: Ubuntu Hardy
Home Laptop: dual-boot Windows Vista with Cygwin and Ubuntu Hardy
Home Desktop: Ubuntu Hardy

I am in the process of migrating from Windows to Linux. My first Ubuntu install was in 2007 (dual-boot ...
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