Hi, There might be so many possibilities of the reason why they are different, so I recommend to post the screenshot how they are rendered differently. However, I'm unfamiliar with the font backend in Emacs...
Regards, mpsuzuki Michael Gummelt wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just learning how font rendering on linux works, and I'm trying to > understand why my fonts look different in terminator (a gnome application) > and graphical emacs. The terminator man page says that the font config can > be set to a "Pango font name", which suggests it's using Pango to render > fonts. My font, DejaVu Sans Mono, looks great in terminator, but not so > good in graphical emacs. I assume graphical emacs is using raw xft? But I > thought Pango uses xft as a backend, so they should look the same, right? > My question is, what is the separation of duties of each of these font > tools, and why might the same font be rendered differently in each > application? Is there any way to get emacs to render fonts as well as > terminator? > > Thanks, > Michael > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-i18n-list mailing list > gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list _______________________________________________ gtk-i18n-list mailing list gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list
