From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: defining default face Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:37:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <48C52051.8010307@tqtvd.com> <873akampe1.fsf@zeekat.nl> <87wshml2md.fsf@zeekat.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220931474 8639 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2008 03:37:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 03:37:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 09 05:38:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kcu3x-00042P-Ev for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:38:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59081 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kcu2x-0004ZE-0S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:37:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kcu2f-0004Z6-9j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kcu2d-0004Yi-Ox for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39179 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kcu2d-0004Yf-JG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu ([128.122.80.33]:57575) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kcu2d-0003ci-HG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578d291.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.210.145]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m893bM59025186 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 23:37:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id A835B19D931; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 23:37:19 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87wshml2md.fsf@zeekat.nl> (Joost Diepenmaat's message of "Tue\, 09 Sep 2008 00\:00\:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57351 Archived-At: At Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:26 +0200 Joost Diepenmaat wrote: > Allan Gottlieb writes: > >> At Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:03:18 +0200 Joost Diepenmaat 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