From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: yynyygy@gmail.com
Cc: 17792@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17792: 24.3; hintstyle specified via fontconfig is ignored by Emacs
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:10:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmZmuPnfP+uUgDLVzifNU917fDaVsJTNO=jXt2JRh0TOw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mzki66x.fsf@gentoo.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
yynyygy@gmail.com writes:
> I've noticed font rendering differences between Emacs and other gtk
> applications like gedit. In short, Emacs ignores hintstyle setting in
> fontconfig. I have hintstyle set to hintslight in
> ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf, but I have to add 'Xft.hintstyle:
> hintslight' in Xresources to get the desired effect.
>
> The strange thing is that while ignoring hintstyle setting, Emacs still
> respect part of fontconfig settings, for example, anti-aliasing setting
> in fonts.conf will affect Emacs's font rendering.
>
> To be more precise, if I disable anti-aliasing in fonts.conf and enable
> it in Xresources, Emacs will not have anti-aliasing; if I have
> hintslight in fonts.conf and hintnone in Xresources, Emacs will use
> hintnone.
>
> I have tested with DejaVu Sans Mono 12 and Ubuntu Mono 13, but clearly
> it is not the fonts' problem.
Is this still an issue now that harfbuzz is enabled by default on the
master branch?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-26 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-06-17 3:08 ` bug#17792: 24.3; hintstyle specified via fontconfig is ignored by Emacs yynyygy
2014-06-17 15:28 ` Jan Djärv
2014-06-18 4:44 ` Fangwen Yu
2014-06-22 20:54 ` bug#17792: 24.3; hintstyle spewcified " Jan Djärv
2014-06-24 22:01 ` James Cloos
2014-06-25 8:32 ` Jan Djärv
2019-09-26 14:10 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-08-12 18:50 ` bug#17792: 24.3; hintstyle specified " Stefan Kangas
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