From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Fabrice Popineau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Emacs on Ubuntu advice Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:55:40 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="f403043788742e76ab055b6c579d" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507895835 28102 195.159.176.226 (13 Oct 2017 11:57:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:57:15 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 13 13:57:11 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e2yaH-0005Pj-PD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:56:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49712 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2yaP-0006J4-0r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 07:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53519) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2yZO-0006G1-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 07:56:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2yZN-0007Ey-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 07:56:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qt0-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::22f]:54915) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2yZN-0007Em-NL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 07:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-qt0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id z19so19039246qtg.11 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:56:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=+VaCrbESeOSa77E4h9XyLNyv0YyIAYdv7D0iG8qsIeo=; b=VUI2aLcgE6n99/wBwqdn0pTLLXNiviM0EBMaF4mXIhTwD2hsjKYsQfSTQZECQYVctS t+Qmbjtch0VPITQgNncYHh28knNyBcMaDxEq2UISGAIUq/s8x966jM9Q3LCsVxxfwI8T +QaS8DYNCu5Yl2LD1BAGDm9w9wIMmNQYL9fhPApTsAZjm6VtejvrfJJNeUb4EwXuPP1P 0/y5oqSIu4WxLku8STKB9ZIyJ5Z5zXDV/ZEO3yD9BKc1RqCdBpsxbX9Lhzk9ItpSv49c jmHoycCiX1TOjaWza15dLkhqb+5TeHLl7J7WX8tqbFSeG5T6dgsWaIvjY/9BathDUJZr 91vA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=+VaCrbESeOSa77E4h9XyLNyv0YyIAYdv7D0iG8qsIeo=; b=MGaOUTyh9fM5E0KEI3AeTvAQqk0aRDfBqPthpXkNJSEFBmFo++M1etRaOmFvJ4A4gZ LnjkVa36BOnbcomr4DdBuHUkTrN5actDxIZ2vfaR0Qd3nVPM2U2rm4G2/CyxebUs2btt 5wttS4Gb4NmcK8oUhTu+VThpHDJ6nhLoW80ZCdQVf1DghngWcCddL/lzZuPNcdszkrx8 Nn/9aYpSfILNAlZntCZAPmJQ4yICCqDg7uE2Be64lYPHUHw5a0BeXdbERR6nQ+//Ln52 pj1fpTvtBHdW7m202rURScKb6cSt859YH7KTPDWwJRJBlUu/bCHx6WfMIkkO+vIVhauz IPyA== X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaXZnVdco+lADxAhUFFukg4h3KNF7ybahIVl7V/6dPzc8nJPRX5A 2yVAyof9nJGr2lkHvX+OowUaDDUoVxs1kA5Zs9JfEg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABhQp+SiRW6Z9eyZnMWDVb2lWvQ0hzD2R63J+Z617vCDO/3bS0cjrt+LGJZmqBaaV5aFP2jtnFvTW3bI950a7MuqGXg= X-Received: by 10.200.4.37 with SMTP id v37mr1451380qtg.313.1507895760810; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.140.94.2 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:55:40 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::22f X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219450 Archived-At: --f403043788742e76ab055b6c579d Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I have compiled Emacs under Windows Subsystem for Linux, which is Ubuntu 16.04 and I have 2 questions : - what is the preferred X toolkit if I run emacs-26 from Ubuntu with an ms-windows X server like mobaxterm ? Is it Gtk2, Gtk3 or something else ? - I have tried Gtk3 and I can't get my preferred font which is Consolas to render perfectly sharp. I have fiddled a lot with various parameters without success. The rendering of the font is quite different from the ms-windows rendering. I don't know to what extent the X server is responsible from the rendering. Any recipe or pointer to what need to be looked at will be welcome. Thanks in advance, Fabrice --f403043788742e76ab055b6c579d Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I have compiled Emacs under Windows Su= bsystem for Linux, which is Ubuntu 16.04
and I have 2 questions :

- what is the preferred X toolkit if I run emac= s-26 from Ubuntu with an ms-windows X server like mobaxterm ? Is it Gtk2, G= tk3 or something else ?=C2=A0

- I have tried Gtk3 = and I can't get my preferred font which is Consolas to render perfectly= sharp. I have fiddled a lot with various parameters without success. The r= endering of the font is quite different from the ms-windows rendering. I do= n't know to what extent the X server is responsible from the rendering.= Any recipe or pointer to what need to be looked at will be welcome.
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Thanks in advance,

Fabrice



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