From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Heavy display problems with new font backend Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:21:01 +0100 Message-ID: <480DBC0D.5090600@gnu.org> References: <87hcdy6srx.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <4809F8AC.8000802@gnu.org> <87skxgbtlm.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <18445.25224.874018.531866@priss.frightenedpiglet.com> <874p9uw77k.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208859934 10044 80.91.229.12 (22 Apr 2008 10:25:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:25:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 22 12:26:09 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JoFhO-0003L9-GC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:26:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JoFgi-0005rV-TP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:25:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JoFge-0005q4-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:25:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JoFgc-0005oj-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:25:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JoFgc-0005oc-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:25:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JoFgb-00023y-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:25:18 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmIFANpZDUhTQxds/2dsb2JhbACBUqpO X-IP-Direction: IN Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO wanchan.jasonrumney.net) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 22 Apr 2008 11:21:32 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.249.27] (chiko.jasonrumney.net [192.168.249.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10F1790 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:22:01 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <874p9uw77k.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=8086879D X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:95754 Archived-At: David Hansen wrote: > Well, if you want to use the good old bitmap fonts anyway it's probably > not worth. These antialiased fonts look nice if they are huge black > letters on a bright background. Small characters just look like s..., > especially with white fg on black bg. I think I'll just use the old > font handling as long as possible. > There is a new font backend for the "old" X fonts, so you should be able to just keep using the old bitmapped fonts without having to resort to --disable-font-backend. If Xft has fonts of the same name that it imposes antialiasing on, then you can put the following in .Xresources to only use old X fonts: Emacs.fontBackend: x