Re: Failure in building CVS Emacs [xsettings] and other

[Jan Djärv]

Jan Djärv skrev:
> Angelo Graziosi skrev:
> > If with that option I set Monospace, Regular, 10, the result is 
> > *different* from what I see in Konsole or my previous build. And after 
> > this, recalling 'Options | Set Default Font' shows always Sans, 
> > Regular, 12, i.e. it does not reflect the new choice.
> >
> >
> > K910
> > ====
> > Similar results. Only
> >
> > $ xrdb -query | grep Xft
> >
> > is empty.
> >
> > It seems that these new features added to Emacs, after 20091114, make 
> > its look a little bad.

I think the problem is that now Emacs takes fontconfig defaults into account. 
 That means that it uses hintslight (i.e. very little hinting).  You probably 
have set (or KDE sets) hintmedium or hintfull.

When I run Kubuntu 9.10, I get hintslight on all apps, KDE and Emacs.  I have 
changed so Emacs defaults to hintmedium if XSETTINGS aren't found, as is the 
case for KDE (unless xsettings-kde is installed).

        Jan D.