From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIERqw6Rydg==?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Failure in building CVS Emacs [xsettings] and other Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:00 +0100 Message-ID: <4B02AABC.9090502@swipnet.se> References: <4B028A84.30704@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258467361 5483 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2009 14:16:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 15:15:54 2009 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 1NAOq6-0007l7-0I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:15:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43648 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAOq5-000453-CY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:15:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAOUY-0008Q8-D2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:53:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAOUR-0008L4-Iw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:53:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59497 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAOUR-0008KX-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:53:03 -0500 Original-Received: from proxy2.bredband.net ([195.54.101.72]:32948) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAOUQ-0007QL-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:53:02 -0500 Original-Received: from ipb1.telenor.se (195.54.127.164) by proxy2.bredband.net (7.3.140.3) id 4AD3E1BC00FACDFF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:01 +0100 X-SMTPAUTH-B2: X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtGeAE85AktV4S1uPGdsb2JhbACBS4MalEuCYwEBAQE3qU6RE4EwgjdUBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,758,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="4492925" Original-Received: from c-6e2de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.110]) by ipb1.telenor.se with ESMTP; 17 Nov 2009 14:53:01 +0100 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.2] (gaffa [172.20.199.2]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7574A7FA07B; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:00 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) In-Reply-To: <4B028A84.30704@alice.it> X-detected-operating-system: 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:117093 Archived-At: Angelo Graziosi skrev: > > Instead, it builds on Kubuntu 9.10, but the result does not look very > good, in my opinion. I have attached the screen shots regarding a > previous build (on 20091114, without xsettings, I think), called 'good', > and the current, called 'bad': my opinion is that this has characters > too light. > It doesn't really say anything unless you compare it with some other application with the same font. It looks like you have hinting off. What does % xrdb -query |grep Xft say? I'm sure Kde has some font-setting applet, what options do you have there? Jan D.