Re: defining default face

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:26 +0200 Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl> wrote:

> Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> writes:
>
>> At Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:03:18 +0200 Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> FWIW, I found that my CVS builds (23.0.60) I need to switch on XFT
>>> explicitly or else it won't use anti-aliasing for the ttf fonts.
>>>
>>>>From my .Xresources:
>>>
>>> Emacs*font: Inconsolata-13
>>> Emacs.FontBackend: xft
>>
>> Very interesting.  I don't seem to have to.  The fonts look
>> anti-aliased to me (xmag shows some "grey" pixels).
>>
>> I then added the fontbackend and ran xrdb.  xmag shows no change
>>
>> I use gentoo and have the xft use flag set, which brings in quite a
>> bit and presumably turns on XFT.
>>
>> Another possibility is that I use bitstream vera fonts not
>> Inconsolata.
>
> My problem is the same for all anti-aliased fonts, and believe me, it's
> VERY noticable. :-)
>
> I built emacs from CVS using
>
> ./configure --with-xpm --with-tiff --with-jpeg --with-png --with-rsvg
> --with-x-toolkit=gtk

Don't you need --with-xft  ?

allan