How to add fonts in cygwin mintty

fonts terminal cygwin mintty
Saurabh Rana picture Saurabh Rana · Jul 29, 2013 · Viewed 9.1k times · Source

I wish to use additional fonts in enter image description heremintty, I want to add Monaco font to my cygwin terminal. While mintty does help me to customise fonts and appearance. I cannot get to use additional fonts. I added Monaco from internet to my Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Fonts folder and it's usable in wordpad and word but not in mintty.

Answer

Isaac Hanson picture Isaac Hanson · May 25, 2016

This is easy, but you cannot use the mintty UI to change it. Instead, create a file /etc/minttyrc or edit the file ~/.minttyrc.

Set the font (and other settings) there. Check the man page for complete list of settings.

Font=Monaco
FontHeight=12

You can find the available font names in the standard Windows font dialog in the config panel.

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