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

[Jan D.]

On 2009-11-26 08:01, Jan Djärv wrote:
> On 2009-11-25 23:22, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> > src/ChangeLog:
> >
> > 2009-11-25 Jan Djärv <address@hidden>
> >
> > * xsettings.c: Revert changes from 2009-11-23. Just use Xft
> > defaults (bug #5025).
> >
> > As I suspected, that reverts also the good news I flagged in:
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-11/msg01101.html
>
> That is what I suspected also. You can do
> % emacs -fn 'Monospace-12:hintstyle=hintslight'
> and see if that is what you wan't. Also try hintmedium.
>
> If you aren't running Gnome, you should set that in ~/.fonts.conf (read
> more here: http://www.fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html):
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <!-- conf.d/sub-pixel.conf -->
> <fontconfig>
> <!-- Enable sub-pixel rendering -->
> <match target="font">
> <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
> </match>
> </fontconfig>
>
> or if you wan't it systemwide, put it /etc/fonts/local.conf.

The comments are from the file I started with, so they aren't relevant. 
 You can remove these two lines:
<!-- conf.d/sub-pixel.conf -->
<!-- Enable sub-pixel rendering -->

        Jan D.