From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Turning off antialiasing Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:09:26 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87d468yvah.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <4a9cd8d1$0$31347$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <87my5fdmsn.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> <4a9d9339$0$31863$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <87hbvleqfp.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> <4a9ea9e1$0$31877$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251989646 1020 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2009 14:54:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:54:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 03 16:53:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MjDhG-0005Y5-G0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:53:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53264 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MjDhF-0006Yo-Te for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:53:57 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oqRk08kTXBP6BChw2t6Pr3H2+SQ= Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 03 Sep 2009 16:09:26 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58a7402d.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=_`RAl1oEZjXmG86`U=_nC_A9EHlD; 3YcR4Fo<]lROoRQ^YC2XCjHcbYA=l2bodModZCV`H8_`hhQT^9QSCVg3dOVgcO2@_RHd:THeAbgnaLDd]bd>IaN8SJd[ Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172663 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:67799 Archived-At: Oliver Scholz writes: > Anselm Helbig writes: > >>> > That being said, you could also play with your display settings: >>> > enable sub-pixel rendering and cranking up your font hinting results >>> > in less blurry fonts. On my ubuntu box, gnome-appearance-properties >>> > has a font tab where you can change these settings. >>> [...] >>> >>> It seems that my Ubuntu is way, way too old. >> >> Really? And my colleagues poke fun at be because I'm still using >> Hardy. 8-) > > Tell them you know someone who still uses Edgy Eft. > > No kidding. I know I should upgrade -- if only to avoid being mocked > --, but it'd take half a day until everything is configured again the > way it should, and I dread that boring half day. No, that's when you upgrade to the next version. When upgrading more than that, stuff goes downhill. -- David Kastrup