Ok, you’ve not been blessed by the MacOS Spirit so you don’t have a MBP but you’d like to have a decent *nix term under windows Seven. You tried the same shortcut that worked previously under XP:

C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -g 120×70+75+-1  -sl 1500 -fn courier -bg black -fg grey -sr -e bash –login -i

but all you get is big window with strange spacing between chars:

.
Ok, it’s time to customize some stuff. Open a cygwin shell (or an ugly uncustomized rxvt), go to your home directory, and create/edit your .Xdefaults file to fit this one:

#Rxvt.reverseVideo:      true
Rxvt.scrollBar_right:   false
Rxvt.saveLines:         2048
Rxvt.font:              "Lucida Console-12"

Then edit your shortcut to something similar to this one:

C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -bg black -fg grey -tn rxvt -sr -sl 1500 -g "140x60+1+-1" -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i

If you need to adjust the size of the window, you can change the -g “140×60+1+-1″ values.

You should now get something much more like that:



Enjoy!