From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: henry atting Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: font - dpi settings ignored? Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:09:52 +0200 Organization: IPreferNotTo Message-ID: <87r6al4ndb.fsf@literaturlatenight.de> References: <871w2nqtj8.fsf@literaturlatenight.de> <87od5r2vfd.fsf@literaturlatenight.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214403145 17669 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2008 14:12:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kenichi Handa To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 25 16:13:10 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 1KBVjh-0001kI-JX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:12:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58448 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBVir-0006ad-DF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:11:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBVhM-0005Sz-M9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBVhL-0005RH-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38307 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBVhK-0005Qy-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42860 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KBVhJ-0002VW-UG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KBVhF-0007Rs-M2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:10:05 +0000 Original-Received: from port-92-195-62-113.dynamic.qsc.de ([92.195.62.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:10:05 +0000 Original-Received: from nospam by port-92-195-62-113.dynamic.qsc.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:10:05 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: port-92-195-62-113.dynamic.qsc.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DsVHP2aauug2mBqqJMQfKj8aXCQ= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:99925 Archived-At: Kenichi Handa wrote: > In article <87od5r2vfd.fsf@literaturlatenight.de>, > henry atting writes: > >> henry atting wrote: >> > For some time past my dpi settings seem to be ignored. In my >> > ~/.Xdefaults it is set like this: >> > >> > Xft.dpi: 96 > > Could you tell me what does Xft.dpi means? Is it a way to > tell X applications to assume the specified DPI instead of > what the X server tells by DisplayHeight() and > DisplayHeightMM()? In short, yes. >> > My font is: >> > >> > display: by this font (glyph code) >> > -unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso8859-1 >> > (#x37) >> > >> > I get an anti-aliased font but 'thin'. > > What do you mean by 'thin'? Is the pixelsize 15 not > correct? Or the pixelsize is ok, but glyphs are just thin? The glyphs are just thin. Within an older emacs they still look good. Please, look at this cutout of a screenshot: http://www.literaturlatenight.de/pic.png henry