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

[Angelo Graziosi]

Jan Djärv ha scritto:
> Jan Djärv skrev:
> > Angelo Graziosi skrev:
> > > If with that option I set Monospace, Regular, 10, the result is 
> > > *different* from what I see in Konsole or my previous build. And 
> > > after this, recalling 'Options | Set Default Font' shows always Sans, 
> > > Regular, 12, i.e. it does not reflect the new choice.
> > >
> > >
> > > K910
> > > ====
> > > Similar results. Only
> > >
> > > $ xrdb -query | grep Xft
> > >
> > > is empty.
> > >
> > > It seems that these new features added to Emacs, after 20091114, make 
> > > its look a little bad.
>
> I think the problem is that now Emacs takes fontconfig defaults into 
> account.  That means that it uses hintslight (i.e. very little 
> hinting).  You probably have set (or KDE sets) hintmedium or hintfull.
>
> When I run Kubuntu 9.10, I get hintslight on all apps, KDE and Emacs.  I 
> have changed so Emacs defaults to hintmedium if XSETTINGS aren't found, 
> as is the case for KDE (unless xsettings-kde is installed).

Now, the things are better, mainly on K910.

Emacs uses Monospace Regular 12, which on K910 has the same look I got 
with Emacs-20091114 (using Monosp. Reg. 10, though). On K804, Emacs 
frame is half sized! It shows 22 lines instead of about 40, as usually.


Thanks,
Angelo.