From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anselm Helbig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Turning off antialiasing Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:41:44 +0200 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <87my5fdmsn.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> References: <4a9cd8d1$0$31347$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251801689 5118 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2009 10:41:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:41:29 +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 01 12:41:22 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 1MiQnB-0001uj-3R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:40:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35185 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MiQnA-0007ma-9Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:40:48 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 57 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de cBjpAC6NRwEvaxji13sSKQN3YfYzyI4T1sZuItoxKBXtdhIxHJ07Bm+vJR Cancel-Lock: sha1:1+6ewGlxwhvwzbXyE1Vh8b/NQkY= In-Reply-To: <4a9cd8d1$0$31347$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> Mail-Followup-To: Anselm Helbig Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172560 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:67698 Archived-At: At Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:18:23 +0200, Oliver Scholz wrote: > > I just upgraded to Emacs 23.1. Good work! I have not explored everything > yet, but I am already impressed. I like the little details, like that > isearch now displays which characters make the search fail. And with the > new internal coding system, I finally have combining diacritics. Yay! > (As soon as I find a font with the right glyphs I can finally write > so-called "umlauts" as they were intended, when I cite from German > baroque literature. I have been waiting for that for a long time!) Also, > Emacs' new appearance is nice and shiny. I find the new default font a > good choice, although I am not sure that I personally like it. But it > certainly gives Emacs a modern appearance. > > Of course, upgrading broke a couple of things in my .emacs, as is to be > expected from a major upgrade. I'll fix it all, eventually. One thing, > though, is rather urgent for me: > > Antialiasing, while looking pretty, lets the characters seem slightly > blurred, which, after a while, starts to hurt my eyes and gives me a > headache. > > Is there a way to turn antialiasing off, preferably without changing the > font backend? If not, will there be one in the future? Ideally, I'd like > to turn it off on a per-face basis; antialisasing is painful for me only > with the default face, since it's this face in which I read large chunks > of text on the screen. > > Unless I overlooked something, I suppose the only way right now to deal > with it, is to use X ressources to prohibit Emacs from using xft, > thereby turning off antialiasing entirely. Is that right? Or is there at > least a way to keep using xft and turn antialiasing off from Lisp, which > I'd prefer? It's easy, just choose a bitmapped font. Something like Emacs.font: fixed in your .Xresources should do it. Terminus is another popular choice for a monospaced bitmapped font, and there are lots of others out there. Using a bitmapped font also results in faster display operations. 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. You still might prefer a non-antialiased bitmapped font, but that's a personal matter. HTH, Anselm -- Anselm Helbig mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com