Re: 23.0.60; Heavy display problems with new font backend

[Jason Rumney]

David Hansen wrote:

> Well, if you want to use the good old bitmap fonts anyway it's probably
> not worth.  These antialiased fonts look nice if they are huge black
> letters on a bright background.  Small characters just look like s...,
> especially with white fg on black bg.  I think I'll just use the old
> font handling as long as possible.
>   

There is a new font backend for the "old" X fonts, so you should be able 
to just keep using the old bitmapped fonts without having to resort to 
--disable-font-backend.
If Xft has fonts of the same name that it imposes antialiasing on, then 
you can put the following in .Xresources to only use old X fonts:

Emacs.fontBackend: x