I have Cygwin/X installed on a Win7 box. I also have an Ubuntu VM running on the Win7 host.

If I do the following:

1. Start Xming on the Win7 box
2. Start mate-terminal under Cygwin/X

then mate-terminal starts up with very crappy-looking fonts and a blinking cursor. (I'm using "Monospace 10" in mate-terminal.)

If I then do:

1. Use putty to ssh into the Ubuntu VM (fowarding the X connection)
2. Run gnome-settings-daemon on the Ubuntu VM

then the fonts in mate-terminal suddenly become much better looking and the cursor stops blinking (probably because I've configured it that way in Ubuntu.)

Question:

How can I get the better-looking fonts and the ability to set cursor-blinks option for mate-terminal under Cygwin/X without having to run the Ubuntu VM?

FWIW, I have Xming-fonts-7-5-0-4 installed.

Update: Starting Xming with '-dpi 101' as suggested here helps, but the fonts are still not anti-aliased.