Re: StumpWM and Gnome

[David Hansen]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:50:28 +0100 Sébastien Vauban wrote:

>> Xft.hinting: 1

This is arguable.  I do use:

Xft*autohint:  false
Xft*hinting:   true

But your freetype version may be compiled w/o all the possibly patent
infringing stuff.  You can try

Xft*autohint:  true
Xft*hinting:   false

or try to compile freetype yourself and go to one of the header files
to enable these features (this is documented within the freetype source,
grep -ri "patent").

>> Xft.hintstyle:       hintslight

Better use "hintfull"

>> Xft.rgba:    rgb

Use this only if you have a TFT.

> I've done this, but I still have ugly fonts in Emacs (not much
> better within "xterms", but I guess there are other settings
> there to look at).

What's your Emacs version?

> to my `.stumpwm' init file:
>
>   (set-font 
> "-microsoft-consolas-regular-normal-normal--11-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-startup")

StumpWM only supports old style X11 fonts.  Use one of the "classics"
like fixed or neep.

David