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Is there any way to pretty anti-aliased fonts to work on cygwin X server?
Basically I want the vim screen on the left to look like the pretty vim screen on the right.
Sam Saffron
Posted 2009-08-12T00:33:12.143
Reputation: 973
When running X remotely via Cygwin why are my fonts ugly
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Ok, so I know this isn't a direct answer, but have you considered running Xming instead? With Xming you at least get TTF support, and I've used it to connect remotely with no font anti-alias issues. My experience has been, pretty much, "if it looks like that on the screen on the server, it also looks like that on my workstation".
Avery Payne
Posted 2009-08-12T00:33:12.143
Reputation: 2 371
3This is not a valid solution: Xming 6.9.0.31 (latest free) has the same problem. – sorin – 2010-03-04T10:38:07.733
It should be noted that
-dpi 100works for Cygwin/X as well... – DevSolar – 2016-02-09T12:44:36.037The funny thing is to work around this annoyance, I ended up configuring GVim on windows and shared the dirs Im editing via samba so its all working pretty nicely now without needing an X server – Sam Saffron – 2009-08-12T02:46:58.277
2I found that adding '-dpi 101' to the XMing shortcut helped a lot - for some reason with the standard dpi of 96, all the fonts seem too small in XMing. – Adam Iley – 2011-08-24T14:27:24.100
I found kybernetikos's suggestion of using -dpi 101 on XMing to be extremely helpful. – Stephan – 2014-01-10T01:23:41.650