From: Matthew Leach <matthew@mattleach.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 23137@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:05:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb45hihb.fsf@mattleach.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83twjqvwt1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2016 05:32:10 +0300")
Hi Eli,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Matthew Leach <matthew@mattleach.net>
>> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:16:45 +0100
>>
>> I sometimes switch between two WMs, namely i3 and GNOME3. I've noticed
>> that under GNOME3, the font rendering in Emacs seems to be, in my
>> opinion, nicer than in i3. The difference is that under GNOME3 Emacs
>> uses subpixel rendering and not in i3.
>
> What is "subpixel rendering"?
[1] gives an overview of what it is and the 'rgba' values in [2] show
how to configure it. I think MS use the term ClearType on their Windows
platform.
Thanks,
--
Matt
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
[2]: http://linux.die.net/man/5/fonts-conf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-29 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-28 21:16 bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session Matthew Leach
2016-03-29 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-29 7:05 ` Matthew Leach [this message]
2016-03-29 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-29 21:13 ` Matthew Leach
2016-03-30 2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-31 7:34 ` Matthew Leach
2016-03-31 16:10 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2016-03-31 16:41 ` Matthew Leach
2016-03-31 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-08 6:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-08 7:24 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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