From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Subpixel averaging Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:50:10 -0400 Message-ID: <87hceqikml.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87lk42ppkw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ve36bmvh.fsf@sec.modprobe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206741221 5469 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2008 21:53:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:53:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Rauchenwald Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 28 22:54:12 2008 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 1JfMWX-0007kk-HO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:54:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfMVw-0001Cf-3I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:53:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfMVs-0001C0-0R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfMVp-0001Bn-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:53:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfMVp-0001Bk-Fs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JfMVp-0003Za-6O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 90B6D4E3F7; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:50:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87ve36bmvh.fsf@sec.modprobe.de> (Tom Rauchenwald's message of "Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:43:30 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:93718 Archived-At: Tom Rauchenwald writes: >> Although Emacs now performs anti-aliasing, it doesn't seem to perform >> subpixel averaging. I, for one, find the anti-aliased text in Emacs >> blurry and very uncomfortable to read, especially when using >> bright-on-dark color schemes. As a result, I'm forced to use the old >> fonts. > > I don't know it that is the issue, but I have the following in my > .Xresources for that: > > Xft.dpi: 96 > Xft.hinting: true > Xft.hintstyle: hintfull > Xft.antialias: rgba > Xft.rgba: rgb That does indeed work. Many thanks. But none of the other applications on the Gnome desktop seem to need these tweaking. Why is Emacs the only one?