Re: Nice fonts for emacs 22 GTK on Linux ?

[Bill O'Connor]

Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@gmail.com> writes:

> I've been Googling for hours, and have rebuilt emacs 22 several times,
> and I still can't seem to get a decent font working. I first tried the
> Ubuntu packages for emacs 22, but when I failed to get a readable
> font, I tried building from source as follows:
>
> ./configure --with-gtk --enable-font-backend --with-xft --with-
> freetype --with-png --with-tiff --with-jpeg
> make
> sudo make install
>
> The built-in font selection dialog (from Options | Set font) only has
> a few fonts to choose from, so I've been trying to set them manually
> as follows:
>
> emacs -r -fn "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-
> *-*-*-*-*"
>
> But the fonts look all jaggedy :(
>
> I thought emacs 22 made an improvement by providing anti-aliased font
> capabilities - is this true? If so, how does one enable it? Some
> articles have stated that 22 doesn't provide this capability.
>
> Brian Adkins

I used this branch:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co -r 
emacs-unicode-2 emacs


Details here: 

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs