Re: defining default face

[Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl>]

Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> writes:

> At Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:03:18 +0200 Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I found that my CVS builds (23.0.60) I need to switch on XFT
>> explicitly or else it won't use anti-aliasing for the ttf fonts.
>>
>>>From my .Xresources:
>>
>> Emacs*font: Inconsolata-13
>> Emacs.FontBackend: xft
>
> Very interesting.  I don't seem to have to.  The fonts look
> anti-aliased to me (xmag shows some "grey" pixels).
>
> I then added the fontbackend and ran xrdb.  xmag shows no change
>
> I use gentoo and have the xft use flag set, which brings in quite a
> bit and presumably turns on XFT.
>
> Another possibility is that I use bitstream vera fonts not
> Inconsolata.

My problem is the same for all anti-aliased fonts, and believe me, it's
VERY noticable. :-)

I built emacs from CVS using

./configure --with-xpm --with-tiff --with-jpeg --with-png --with-rsvg
--with-x-toolkit=gtk

Maybe that means I've got multiple font backends and emacs doesn't
recognize that I want xft or something like that.

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