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How to stop rxvt from spacing fonts miles apart?


I installed the latest release of MinGW/MSYS, and I like to use rxvt terminal over the boring windows command prompt. But this new build spaces the letters too much: most fonts I have tried are messed up - even Courier New (ttf), Consolas (ttf), or PC6X13 (fon).

I'm stuck with plain OLD Courier because at least it's readable. Any solutions out there? EASY solutions preferred, I don't feel like patching source code and re-compiling rxvt!


Solution

  • For rxvt, I found Courier New works (alas, no Consolas). There's also Console 2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ which works pretty well with bash (MSys) and CMD shells.