Re: 23.0.60; Heavy display problems with new font backend

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:21:01 +0100 Jason Rumney wrote:

> David Hansen wrote:
>
>> Well, if you want to use the good old bitmap fonts anyway it's probably
>> not worth.  These antialiased fonts look nice if they are huge black
>> letters on a bright background.  Small characters just look like s...,
>> especially with white fg on black bg.  I think I'll just use the old
>> font handling as long as possible.
>>   
>
> There is a new font backend for the "old" X fonts, so you should be
> able to just keep using the old bitmapped fonts without having to
> resort to --disable-font-backend.

This doesn't solve the display problems with non latin-1 characters.

> If Xft has fonts of the same name that it imposes antialiasing on,
> then you can put the following in .Xresources to only use old X fonts:
>
> Emacs.fontBackend: x

Why compile in code I don't won't to use anyway?

David