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Re: How to launch an rxvt terminal window with Monospace font
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru>
- To: Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:28:29 +0400
- Subject: Re: How to launch an rxvt terminal window with Monospace font
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Andy Koppe!
>> - It seems that Monospace font is not available with non-X11 applications.
> I'd suspect that 'Monospace' isn't an actual font, but some sort of
> alias for the default monospace font, and it looks like it's either
> 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono' or 'DejaVu Sans Mono'. Both of these are
> available for Windows as well. I've got them on my system anyway, but
> I don't know whether they were there by default or whether they were
> installed with some application.
You can obtain DejaVu font from their site (it's open project), and Bitstream's
Vera is (was), basically, a base for it. (So, talking about "either" isn't
exactly correct)
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 06.08.2010, <16:24>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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