[gentoo-user] Blurred bold characters in urxvt

[gentoo-user] Blurred bold characters in urxvt

[Mick]

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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?
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Regards,
Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: Blurred bold characters in urxvt

[Mick]

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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 ...

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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blurred bold characters in urxvt

[Joshua Murphy]

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.

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Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blurred bold characters in urxvt

[Mick]

On 7 June 2010 13:52, Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, it makes sense now.
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Regards,
Mick