From: Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blurred bold characters in urxvt
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:52:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimtBWzvJkgUWv7RUWaqpJg_oaTFNenJSEdlMZE1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006052010.01731.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 05 June 2010 19:13:24 Mick wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I emerged rxvt-unicode because aterm which I have been using faithfully for
>> years does not do UTF8, but as you can see in the attachment all bold
>> characters look distorted. In xterm and aterm they look nice and clear
>> when bold.
>>
>> How can I fix this?
>
> It seems that it was a limitation of the fixed font that I had defined for
> aterm in .Xresources:
>
> aterm*font:-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*-100-*-*-*-*-*
>
> Setting a different font and using xft seems to overcome this problem:
>
> /usr/bin/urxvt -pe tabbed -fn "x:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=15"
>
> No idea why aterm copes with fixed font and urxvt does not ...
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
The 'why' I can answer. Aterm doesn't do antialiasing for the fonts
while urxvt does, and the 'fixed' font wasn't made to be able to
handle antialiasing cleanly.
--
Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-07 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-05 18:13 [gentoo-user] Blurred bold characters in urxvt Mick
2010-06-05 19:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2010-06-07 12:52 ` Joshua Murphy [this message]
2010-06-07 13:19 ` Mick
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