Re: Subpixel averaging

[Chong Yidong]

Tom Rauchenwald <address@hidden> writes:

>> Although Emacs now performs anti-aliasing, it doesn't seem to perform
>> subpixel averaging.  I, for one, find the anti-aliased text in Emacs
>> blurry and very uncomfortable to read, especially when using
>> bright-on-dark color schemes.  As a result, I'm forced to use the old
>> fonts.
>
> I don't know it that is the issue, but I have the following in my
> .Xresources for that:
>
> Xft.dpi:                96
> Xft.hinting:            true
> Xft.hintstyle:          hintfull
> Xft.antialias:          rgba
> Xft.rgba:               rgb

That does indeed work.  Many thanks.

But none of the other applications on the Gnome desktop seem to need
these tweaking.  Why is Emacs the only one?