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Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge
From: |
Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge |
Date: |
Fri, 23 May 2008 14:28:33 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 23 May 2008 05:16:11 +0100 David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Stephen Berman wrote:
>>
>> The (active) mode line face now displays Helvetica correctly. Note,
>> however, that in the inactive mode line face the characters are wider,
>
> And not anti-aliased?
Indeed not.
> Was this still with FontBackend: xft
Yes.
> And [welcome to complication, Level 2] did you have fontconfig/xft set
> to allow bitmap fonts or not? While most linux distros now default to
> "no", if fontconfig/xft /is/ using bitmap fonts, then "new" font
> handling can still, depending of course on the font, result in
> x-core-font-like-in-appearance rendering, you see! (including in emacs
> with FontBackend: xft, as far as I can tell. Hmmm.)
>
> At least if you're on debian or a debian-oid (e.g. ubuntu...), this is
> usually controlled by which one of
> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf or
> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf
> is symlinked in to /etc/fonts/conf.d/
> (if you change this, you may have to run fc-cache -fv )
>
> I recommend "no". Unless you really have a need of particular glyphs
> from or just can't live without some old favorite (probably monospace)
> bitmap font I guess.
My system has the above files and directories. There was no symlink
from either of those files, so I added the "no" one, as you suggested,
ran fc-cache -fv, and then emacs -q. Helvetica is still not anti-aliased.
Steve Berman
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, (continued)
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Kenichi Handa, 2008/05/15
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/16
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/16
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/17
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/17
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/17
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/17
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/18
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/22
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge,
Stephen Berman <=
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, James Cloos, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, James Cloos, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/24
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/27