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: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:07:54 -0600
I just tested this. And also placed in my .Xresources. Looks great
with xterms. I have not tried other x apps, but then I usually only
use xterm. Thanks again.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Egan Ford <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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