On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 05 June 2010 19:13:24 Mick wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I emerged rxvt-unicode because aterm which I have been using faithfully for >> years does not do UTF8, but as you can see in the attachment all bold >> characters look distorted. In xterm and aterm they look nice and clear >> when bold. >> >> How can I fix this? > > It seems that it was a limitation of the fixed font that I had defined for > aterm in .Xresources: > > aterm*font:-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*-100-*-*-*-*-* > > Setting a different font and using xft seems to overcome this problem: > > /usr/bin/urxvt -pe tabbed -fn "x:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=15" > > No idea why aterm copes with fixed font and urxvt does not ... > > -- > Regards, > Mick
The 'why' I can answer. Aterm doesn't do antialiasing for the fonts while urxvt does, and the 'fixed' font wasn't made to be able to handle antialiasing cleanly. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
