Re: widely-spaced characters in rxvt

[ht at inf dot ed dot ac dot uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

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Daniel Barclay writes:

>   Rxvt*font:		-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--*-160-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
>
> I have not ~/.Xdefaults

That's your problem.  Vanilla Windows does not have the bitstream
fonts at all.  Either

 1) Install the bitstream fonts (they are free now, use a search
    engine);
 2) Edit that line to use a font you _do_ have by default, for instance
     Rxvt*font:    Lucida Console-11

I recommend (1).  Even better, get the tweaked version of the
Bitstream fonts, which are called DejaVu.

ht
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