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.
next prev parent 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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