Re: Tragedy

[rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Oct 7, 12:35 pm, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> May or may not be of use, but I encountered the same problem after
> updating CVS emacs last Thursday. The solution I found that works under
> X is to add
>
> Emacs.FontBackend: xft
>
> to my .Xresources file.
>
> Tim
>
> --
> tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

Hi Tim
Can you explain a little what that does?
A little context for asking:
1. Ive been running emacs (21 and 22) for a while under debian etch
and ubuntu dapper. Some of the settings of background color etc are
set in Xresources. And every once in a while -- quite randomly -- it
does not work.

2. Recently upgraded the dapper to hardy. Now 'snapshot' is not 22 but
23.  Supposedly the font support is better there but in fact it looks
distinctly worse.

3. When upgrading from dapper to hardy the upgrade broke on xfonts-
scalable.  A little googling told me the problem is evidently in
xfonts-utils.  Trying to set that up broke everything and I had to
give up upgrading and go for a new install.