Re: xterm tt font vs terminal app display
Re: xterm tt font vs terminal app display
- Subject: Re: xterm tt font vs terminal app display
- From: Egan Ford <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:40:27 -0600
Thanks. I will give this a go.
Cheers,
Egan
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:24 PM, René J.V. <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Monday October 06 2014 15:48:52 Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
>> You need to tweak the DPI settings, probably. There's a plist entry for it,
>> but you may prefer to find something that can adjust it on the fly and then
>> read out that value to set in the plist.
>
> Tweaking the X11 DPI setting isn't very difficult: in a script file:
>
> echo " \
> Xft.antialias: 1 \
> Xft.autohint: 0 \
> Xft.dpi: 72 \
> Xft.hinting: 1 \
> Xft.hintstyle: hintfull \
> Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault \
> Xft.rgba: rgb" | xrdb -merge
>
> This is based on my own observation that X11 renders fonts too large, which concurs with the OP's observation. OS X assumes 96DPI (at least on non-Retina screens...), as most windowing systems. X11 will use that value too by default, but it needs to be told that it's rendering to a 72 DPI screen, and then there's a good match.
>
>> As for font rendering, the standard X11 Freetype support isn't very good.
>> There is a set of patches (Infinality) that improves it considerably;
>> getting it hooked into the Mac ecosystem may be difficult, though.
>
> Really now Brandon ...
> <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44148>
>
> That's been announced on the MacPorts ML, as well as on this very ML.
>
> And normally these patches should make it into XQuartz, if Jeremy gets around to it (and hasn't changed his mind).
>
> With these patches, font rendering under X11 actually looks better & sharper than under OS X (though bold fonts can be a bit overweight, possibly because I haven't understood how to package all the configuration files as it should).
>
>
> R.
>
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