Re: Some xterm-256color face colors too bright?

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:48:49 +0200 stktrc <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have to make a reservation about sub-pixel rendering possibly
> affecting the foreground comparisons: I haven't had time to ensure
> it's off.

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:52:28 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> ??? These two paragraphs seem to contradict one another: the first one
> says that the difference between the windowed and non-windowed session
> is small (which is expected, as the former one has more colors than
> 256), while the latter says that the difference is large (``borders on
> unreadable'' vs ``everything is fine'').  I wonder how can this
> happen.  Can you shed some light on this?

Just a guess:  Xft's anti aliasing blurs the font so that it
appears brighter.

David