From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Antialiased text on X11 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:50:06 +0900 Message-ID: References: <871xab1u3d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <423DFE79.2030004@swipnet.se> <7099f9bab5d23e8daa7f4918a6a201a9@swipnet.se> <87br921fa5.fsf@rocksteady.printf.se> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112136901 32535 80.91.229.2 (29 Mar 2005 22:55:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel Devel , "Jan D." , "Geoffrey J. Teale" , miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 00:54:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGPbi-0001wP-Fz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:54:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGPs5-0002zL-Tw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:11:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGPo1-0008CC-PK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:07:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGPnz-0008BT-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:07:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGPmj-0007Fq-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:06:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.205] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DGPXD-0005NR-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:50:07 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so108377wri for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:50:06 -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=ECq6lDBYrLz0JoBJ4Y+weffEV1cPiKSOPKKuUaWKXKg9WmoLWKUmbxUcPmc1zSQl9ufG8N59NAre/wv5VPNCXKul8nENm8nKSoUIzz4n2TOQzNnPJUPZ5SYPRwseaCFH4Iz5zMZMOPsb2w+ArMKeGB2zCc8MBptUkFdd5zVJcnk= Original-Received: by 10.54.59.8 with SMTP id h8mr483070wra; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:50:06 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.32 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:50:05 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Henrik Enberg In-Reply-To: <87br921fa5.fsf@rocksteady.printf.se> 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:35334 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35334 On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:24:34 +0200, Henrik Enberg wrote: > > [There are some other odd effects like color fringing that make me > > wonder if it's assuming a white background.] > > that might be your setup. fontconfig has options for how colors should > be blended, and in my experience it's basically impossible to get a good > setup for both dark text/light background and vice versa. Er, well all my _other_ fontconfig/freetype/xft using windows (with black or black-ish backgrounds) look absolutely fabulous, so I'd point the finger at Emacs... [I didn't change anything in the fontconfig setup so it seems the default settings -- which are presumably aimed at white backgrounds -- deals pretty well with black backgrounds too.] -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.