Re: X11 and ugly fonts
Re: X11 and ugly fonts
- Subject: Re: X11 and ugly fonts
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:25:29 -0400
Hmm, thought your .fonts.conf note was interesting, tried it and it
hangs X11 up startup on Tiger. Have not dug into anything yet to see
why, but thought I'd throw this out. Any thoughts on that?
Thanks much.
On Apr 20, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Alan Curtis wrote:
On Apr 20, 2005, at 2:45 AM, Bryan Keller wrote:
I have installed X11 on my PowerBook G4 (OS X 10.3.9), and I am
struggling trying to get fonts in X11 apps to look similar to the
fonts in native OS X applications. I have done an exhaustive search
on the web and on this list, and come across other users with the
same issue as me, with no solution.
To boil it down to a simple scenario:
1. Start up Terminal.app and set the font to Courier, size 14.
2. Now start up X11 and xterm and set the font to Courier (xterm -
fs 14 -fa Courier)
The xterm window shows a fairly hideous display, the font being
excessively spaced and just plain ugly. Meanwhile, Terminal looks
as pretty as can be.
What am I missing in my setup that could cause this? I tried
installing Fink's "applesystemfonts" package, and adding those
fonts to my font path by putting "xset +fp ..." in my .xinitrc, but
that didn't do anything. I tried setting my font path to only
include TrueType fonts (xset fp ...), and then xterm wouldn't come
up at all, as if TrueType fonts were not even supported.
Any help is appreciated. And if anyone follows steps 1. and 2.
above, and the two windows look similar, please respond, because
you are doing something right!
I was bothered by this too, but I was using Monaco. This is a (sort
of) solution that I use (from an old post on this list).
I created a file called '.fonts.conf' in my home directory with the
following content.
[code]
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- ~/.fonts.conf for per-user font configuration -->
<fontconfig>
<match target="pattern" name="family">
<test qual="any" name="family">
<string>Monaco</string>
</test>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign">
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
[/code]
the fonts in the windows are now more similar, but still not exactly
the same.
The first part of my .fonts.conf turns off the XFree86 hinting.
The second part turns on sub-pixel sampling which looks good on my
LCD screen.
I don't know why this works.
Alan
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