Re: Failure in building CVS Emacs [xsettings] and other

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>]

Jan Djärv ha scritto:
> On 2009-11-25 23:22, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>> src/ChangeLog:
>>
>> 2009-11-25 Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
>>
>> * xsettings.c: Revert changes from 2009-11-23. Just use Xft
>> defaults (bug #5025).
>>
>> As I suspected, that reverts also the good news I flagged in:
>>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-11/msg01101.html
>>
> 
> That is what I suspected also. You can do
> % emacs -fn 'Monospace-12:hintstyle=hintslight'
> and see if that is what you wan't.  Also try hintmedium.
> 
> If you aren't running Gnome, you should set that in  ~/.fonts.conf (read 
> more here: http://www.fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html):
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <!-- conf.d/sub-pixel.conf -->
> <fontconfig>
> <!--  Enable sub-pixel rendering -->
>   <match target="font">
>     <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
>   </match>
> </fontconfig>
> 
> or if you wan't it systemwide, put it /etc/fonts/local.conf.

I tried all your suggestions, but none of them work. I have tried with 
'hintmedium' and 'hintfull': same result. On Kubuntu, current Emacs-CVS 
is the only application which has a bad look, and this is not very 
attractive to new users.

Is it natural that a user does all this work (if it functions) to use an 
application?


Cheers,
Angelo.