From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: defining default face
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:37:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu9d4jehtw0.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wshml2md.fsf@zeekat.nl> (Joost Diepenmaat's message of "Tue\, 09 Sep 2008 00\:00\:26 +0200")
At Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:26 +0200 Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl> wrote:
> 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
Don't you need --with-xft ?
allan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-09 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-08 12:53 defining default face Rodrigo Canellas
2008-09-08 18:53 ` Allan Gottlieb
[not found] ` <mailman.18749.1220899993.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-08 19:03 ` Joost Diepenmaat
2008-09-08 20:42 ` Allan Gottlieb
[not found] ` <mailman.18756.1220906533.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-08 22:00 ` Joost Diepenmaat
2008-09-09 3:37 ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.18779.1220931446.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-09 10:28 ` Joost Diepenmaat
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