From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OLbpj-0002ga-KH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:53:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C01BDE0AD7; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 12:52:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972EDE0AD7 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 12:52:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws12 with SMTP id 12so2281167vws.40 for ; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:52:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DG9lLneqyw3XCPby53A20EXa/5co28kT+04UiSZHi7c=; b=LVOyRWs2ctBp/8xqBWrLbv9/ZJSR04RwEZCSq7LDQKaHXLHmEywH2v/Lh0S73MWJmp V5qT+WVymYYU72tNuOgZzEB+sWAyz/rIV64KVeKpoRI4GzpMKSd6Bc5hJkeF5r0TWSyT w3LD6IMjI6WPUhGOZ3n0la/EsBnvxOooe1M/Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lCHJbaJJwlgXHBt3adEgyRE1Jy547AdNJEW61uJivfdh5DyWGn0oXceXnMY2JNBPyR wxntJEDV5Ft4hSg60G8BXmlEz0tqWfBnRtH6pWDbWryXolYyOQNKqA6J9/UL5/dF+WTP rvUKU+go2JgOajeBx7Wh2tz97V4N+jJHWNN68= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.126.220 with SMTP id d28mr8737203qas.312.1275915123023; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.100.143 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 05:52:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201006052010.01731.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <201006051913.35919.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201006052010.01731.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:52:02 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blurred bold characters in urxvt From: Joshua Murphy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b3be1e23-907a-49ff-8b84-b90d60b09b7b X-Archives-Hash: 017ee2141ec1bada229696a0fa39283a On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Mick 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. =C2=A0In xterm and aterm they look nice and c= lear >> =C2=A0when bold. >> >> How can I fix this? > > It seems that it was a limitation of the fixed font that I had defined fo= r > 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=3D15" > > 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. --=20 Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy