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From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Emacs <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Failure in building CVS Emacs [xsettings] and other
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:22:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0B0B42.3080807@alice.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B0A5C52.40109@swipnet.se>

Jan Djärv ha scritto:
> Jan Djärv skrev:
>> Angelo Graziosi skrev:
>>> If with that option I set Monospace, Regular, 10, the result is 
>>> *different* from what I see in Konsole or my previous build. And 
>>> after this, recalling 'Options | Set Default Font' shows always Sans, 
>>> Regular, 12, i.e. it does not reflect the new choice.
>>>
>>>
>>> K910
>>> ====
>>> Similar results. Only
>>>
>>> $ xrdb -query | grep Xft
>>>
>>> is empty.
>>>
>>> It seems that these new features added to Emacs, after 20091114, make 
>>> its look a little bad.
>>>
> 
> I think the problem is that now Emacs takes fontconfig defaults into 
> account.  That means that it uses hintslight (i.e. very little 
> hinting).  You probably have set (or KDE sets) hintmedium or hintfull.
> 
> When I run Kubuntu 9.10, I get hintslight on all apps, KDE and Emacs.  I 
> have changed so Emacs defaults to hintmedium if XSETTINGS aren't found, 
> as is the case for KDE (unless xsettings-kde is installed).

Now, the things are better, mainly on K910.

Emacs uses Monospace Regular 12, which on K910 has the same look I got 
with Emacs-20091114 (using Monosp. Reg. 10, though). On K804, Emacs 
frame is half sized! It shows 22 lines instead of about 40, as usually.


Thanks,
Angelo.






  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-23 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-17 11:35 Failure in building CVS Emacs [xsettings] and other Angelo Graziosi
2009-11-17 13:53 ` Jan Djärv
2009-11-17 17:38   ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-11-17 19:12     ` Jan Djärv
2009-11-17 22:55       ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-11-18  8:12         ` Jan Djärv
2009-11-23  9:56           ` Jan Djärv
2009-11-23 22:22             ` Angelo Graziosi [this message]
2009-11-24 14:53               ` Jan Djärv
     [not found]                 ` <4B0C54F0.7000103@alice.it>
2009-11-25 16:39                   ` Jan Djärv
2009-11-25 22:22                     ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-11-26  7:01                       ` Jan Djärv
2009-11-26  8:09                         ` Jan D.
2009-11-26 15:58                         ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-11-26 16:05                           ` Jan D.
2009-11-26 16:43                             ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-11-26 16:49                               ` Jan Djärv
2009-11-26 22:10                                 ` Angelo Graziosi

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