Cygwin - rxvt

rxvt on cygwin

I have occasionally had the rxvt window enter a display mode where the display font has excessive spacing between each character. Happened again after one of my recent updates. I was unable to 'resolve' the problem but I did find the following workaround.

Download and install the following font package, Lucida Console Font Package. Then invoke rxvt as follows:

@echo off

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

rxvt -fn "Lucida ConsoleP-12" -fg black -bg white -ls --geometry 120x80