From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some xterm-256color face colors too bright? Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:21:13 +0900 Message-ID: References: <01c507ca$Blat.v2.4$c3c54200@zahav.net.il> <01c50897$Blat.v2.4$b4e02700@zahav.net.il> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107307309 31088 80.91.229.2 (2 Feb 2005 01:21:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:21:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 02 02:21:48 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw9DE-00013I-4T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2005 02:21:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw9QF-0006mC-Lh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:35:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw9Q0-0006m7-Rm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:34:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw9Pz-0006lv-DS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:34:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw9Pz-0006ls-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:34:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.193] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cw9Cl-0003D8-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:21:15 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so112730wri for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:21:14 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=A7Ru6rjGOvzZaFYIotROjh/nykVxqvdUBnyOg2xBCA/Xp9g9Gi3YeyZ8n3kdSeJzzmCTHTOkKwal8leOzNvL0R6h5F2zUr8bEKoTGWOHWBirh8SgzxEHrbsZ402KTU6gcskNlbTZFcobx6EuR1vvs3ll0A4pF1HU9qBZ6hVtMPg= Original-Received: by 10.54.59.37 with SMTP id h37mr180253wra; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:21:14 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.59 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 17:21:13 -0800 (PST) Original-To: stktrc In-Reply-To: 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:32739 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32739 On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:28:09 +0200, stktrc wrote: > However, if that is the case I must have sub-pixel rendering enabled > on the CRT machine, which does not sound sensible (I have assumed it > would only be automatically enabled for LCDs). It might be possible > that it is enabled there anyway. xft does both sub-pixel rendering and anti-aliasing; the former only makes sense on LCDs, but the latter is fine for either. The effect of either on brightness depends on the fonts of course. To be honest this all sounds so completely installation/setting-specific that I'm not sure there's much Emacs can do, other than make customizing things as easy as possible. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.