From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some xterm-256color face colors too bright? Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:56:20 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87vf9chudn.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> References: <01c507ca$Blat.v2.4$c3c54200@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107292577 21731 80.91.229.2 (1 Feb 2005 21:16:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:16:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 01 22:16:17 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw5NX-0002OI-W1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:16:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw5aX-0006AS-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:29:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw5Z2-0005x7-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:28:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw5Ym-0005pt-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:27:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw5Yl-0005ns-TR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:27:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Cw5G0-0000Kf-G6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:08:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw5FX-0001AH-BX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:07:51 +0100 Original-Received: from pd9e765ae.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.231.101.174]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:07:51 +0100 Original-Received: from david.hansen by pd9e765ae.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:07:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e765ae.dip.t-dialin.net Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yGu86dAvls8sjpSaCER+wsORVG8= 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32723 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32723 On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:48:49 +0200 stktrc wrote: > I have to make a reservation about sub-pixel rendering possibly > affecting the foreground comparisons: I haven't had time to ensure > it's off. On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:52:28 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > ??? These two paragraphs seem to contradict one another: the first one > says that the difference between the windowed and non-windowed session > is small (which is expected, as the former one has more colors than > 256), while the latter says that the difference is large (``borders on > unreadable'' vs ``everything is fine''). I wonder how can this > happen. Can you shed some light on this? Just a guess: Xft's anti aliasing blurs the font so that it appears brighter. David