From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Rauchenwald Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Nice fonts for emacs 22 GTK on Linux ? Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:53:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87bq6tofxd.fsf@sec.modprobe.de> References: <065e64c3-28bf-40ae-b3d6-20e5b16c684c@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202338733 32181 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2008 22:58:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:58:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 06 23:59:14 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 1JMtEY-0000Ue-Jj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:59:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMtE6-0007rI-8h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:58:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMtDl-0007qp-Tj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMtDl-0007qT-Cb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMtDl-0007qP-6N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMtDk-00037G-GV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JMtDf-0000o8-KZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:58:19 +0000 Original-Received: from 83-215-41-131.bruck.dyn.salzburg-online.at ([83.215.41.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:58:19 +0000 Original-Received: from sehnsucht.nach.unendlichkeit by 83-215-41-131.bruck.dyn.salzburg-online.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:58:19 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83-215-41-131.bruck.dyn.salzburg-online.at User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jir+MUQD9ui2uD0pCX37PPGZqNM= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:51277 Archived-At: Brian Adkins writes: > I've been Googling for hours, and have rebuilt emacs 22 several times, > and I still can't seem to get a decent font working. I first tried the > Ubuntu packages for emacs 22, but when I failed to get a readable > font, I tried building from source as follows: ... > I thought emacs 22 made an improvement by providing anti-aliased font > capabilities - is this true? If so, how does one enable it? Some > articles have stated that 22 doesn't provide this capability. No, you still need Emacs from CVS. Have a look at this: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs > Brian Adkins Tom -- Then I drew in a breath, and my renewed will with it, lifted the rod in my right hand, murmured a phrase in a language I didn't know, and blew the tires off his fucking truck. -- Harry Dresden