Sebastien Roy wrote: > I'm looking for a version of Emacs on Solaris that can display modern > anti-aliased fonts. Evidently, people have something working for Ubuntu > Linux: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs > > I can grab the CVS sources at this site, and they configure and compile > flawlessly following the directions stated there. It just doesn't > display anti-aliased fonts as advertised on Solaris. > > Does anyone have Emacs with anti-aliased fonts working on Solaris?
I evidently "spoke" much too soon. This actually works! $ emacs --font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-12" Does the right thing. The intro Emacs buffer still looks like garbage (which is what threw me off), but other buffers use the proper font. -Seb
