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: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:56:34 +0100 Message-ID: <4B0A5C52.40109@swipnet.se> References: <4B028A84.30704@alice.it> <4B02AABC.9090502@swipnet.se> <4B02DF8C.3000906@alice.it> <4B02F5B1.3080401@swipnet.se> <4B0329F0.4040702@alice.it> <4B03AC85.4080009@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258970302 3183 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2009 09:58:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:58:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 23 10:58:15 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 1NCVgU-0001Xu-EM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:58:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53525 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCVgT-0001I6-J8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:58:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCVf2-0000nA-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:56:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCVew-0000kW-Oj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:56:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52936 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCVew-0000kJ-Ef for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:56:38 -0500 Original-Received: from proxy1.bredband.net ([195.54.101.71]:33382) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NCVev-0004cB-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:56:38 -0500 Original-Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (195.54.127.165) by proxy1.bredband.net (7.3.140.3) id 4AD3E1C0011E4551 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:56:36 +0100 X-SMTPAUTH-B2: X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AulSALPrCUtV4S1uPGdsb2JhbACBTYJ3lz8BAQEBN6dGghAIjS6BMIEbCIEVVAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,271,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="6618893" Original-Received: from c-6e2de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.110]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 23 Nov 2009 10:56:36 +0100 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.2] (gaffa [172.20.199.2]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id D83FE7FA07B; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:56:34 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) In-Reply-To: <4B03AC85.4080009@swipnet.se> 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:117572 Archived-At: Jan Dj=C3=A4rv skrev: > Angelo Graziosi skrev: >> If with that option I set Monospace, Regular, 10, the result is=20 >> *different* from what I see in Konsole or my previous build. And after= =20 >> this, recalling 'Options | Set Default Font' shows always Sans,=20 >> Regular, 12, i.e. it does not reflect the new choice. >> >> >> K910 >> =3D=3D=3D=3D >> Similar results. Only >> >> $ xrdb -query | grep Xft >> >> is empty. >> >> It seems that these new features added to Emacs, after 20091114, make=20 >> its look a little bad. >> I think the problem is that now Emacs takes fontconfig defaults into acco= unt.=20 That means that it uses hintslight (i.e. very little hinting). You pro= bably=20 have set (or KDE sets) hintmedium or hintfull. When I run Kubuntu 9.10, I get hintslight on all apps, KDE and Emacs. I = have=20 changed so Emacs defaults to hintmedium if XSETTINGS aren't found, as is = the=20 case for KDE (unless xsettings-kde is installed). Jan D.