Then I can tab out to any Windows application, not just Cygwin ones, and paste it in. But I can also highlight a single entry (or two) and right click to copy just that. If I hit ‘To Clipboard’ then the whole contents of the bar is copied ready for pasting.
I can put the character into the copy bar at the bottom by double-clicking. I type ‘dagger’ and I get a list of all characters with that in the name. Now, it beats the Windows character map because it has the search box. This is the pop-up menu (XDG) Cygwin installs into the Windows notification area.When it starts, it looks like this: The KCharSelect window. I have no experience with KDE Windows native ( ). So I click on ‘Show hidden icons’ and drill down and choose KCharSelect. I installed KCharSelect, so in the XDG menu, one of the entries is the character selector (like the ‘character map’ from Windows) from KDE. I have the XDG menu installed (Cygwin package xwin-xdg-menu) and it launches on startup. I have Cygwin installed on my Windows machine.
Very handy for finding and inserting unusual characters.
The fullCursor trueline causes a block cursor to be used we find that full cursor stands out better.I think this is nifty. The cursorColorline sets the color of the xtermcursor we use Redsince it stands out well.
How to set the default color of xtermcursor? At startup, xterm calculates the relative sizes of the bitmap fonts (which may be unrelated to the names in the menu). Set the options for font1, font2, font6 (classname Font1, Font6) to correspond with unreadable, tiny, small, medium, large, and huge in the. How to set unreadable, tiny, small, huge xterm fonts? The Unicode fonts assumed by the uxterm script do not use aliases: The first number in each of those (XLFD) font specifications is the point-size, making it simple to see which are larger. Most of the ten-thousand or so fonts (seen with xlfonts) on my system have no aliases. Xresources:Īre there any aliases for xlfonts in uxterm? We all know how to change the standard font for (u)xterm, just put something like the following in. How to change the standard font for ( you ) xterm? All arguments to uxterm are passed to xterm without processing the -class and -u8 options should not be specified because they are used by the wrapper. Uxterm is a wrapper around the xterm(1) program that invokes the latter program with the oqUXTermcq X resource class set. To set/change setting run following command (here example of increase size) : gsettings set monospace-font-name ‘Ubuntu Mono 14’.To get current font setting run following command: gsettings get monospace-font-name.How do I find the current font in terminal? Look at the bottom of the resource box, you may have to resize it, and set the ‘Save File’ filename.Select the ‘vt100’ widget and click on ‘Show resource box’.Use the ‘Get Tree’ command of editres to get the Xt widgets tree of the XTerm (you simply click on the XTerm).You normally run this program from your X startup file. The xrdb command gets or sets the contents of the RESOURCE_MANAGER property on the root window of screen 0 or the SCREEN_RESOURCES property on the root window of any or all screens, or everything combined. To scale it to a custom size, choose Custom scaling, and specify a width and height for the VNC Viewer window. To scale the desktop to the size of the VNC Viewer window, choose Scale to window size. The “fixed” alias is used as the default font for xterm windows. Note that the 6×13 font also has an alias called “fixed” defined for it. Then a pop-up menu will come up which can be used to set the font size to your taste. Pressing key and the right mouse button simultaneously while you have focus in xterm window. Then you can use ctrl + + to increase font size or ctrl + – to decrease the size, just like you can with ctrl + right-click and selecting one of the other font size options. If you use uxterm, be sure to use UXTerm.