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bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under
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Matthew Leach |
Subject: |
bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session |
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Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:05:20 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Eli,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Matthew Leach <matthew@mattleach.net>
>> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:16:45 +0100
>>
>> I sometimes switch between two WMs, namely i3 and GNOME3. I've noticed
>> that under GNOME3, the font rendering in Emacs seems to be, in my
>> opinion, nicer than in i3. The difference is that under GNOME3 Emacs
>> uses subpixel rendering and not in i3.
>
> What is "subpixel rendering"?
[1] gives an overview of what it is and the 'rgba' values in [2] show
how to configure it. I think MS use the term ClearType on their Windows
platform.
Thanks,
--
Matt
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
[2]: http://linux.die.net/man/5/fonts-conf
- bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session, Matthew Leach, 2016/03/28
- bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/28
- bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session,
Matthew Leach <=
- bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/29
- bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session, Matthew Leach, 2016/03/29
- bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/29
- bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session, Matthew Leach, 2016/03/31
- bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2016/03/31
- bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session, Matthew Leach, 2016/03/31
- bug#23137: 25.1.50; Subpixel rendering is broken when not running under gnome-session, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/31