So cygwin/xfree is very nice indeed, but I still can't make fonts look as good as they do natively on windows XP with cleartype. I've read the xfree86 font de-uglifaction howto, played with XftConfig, enabled sub-pixel antialiasing, downloaded and built my own version of the latest freetype dll (with and without the bytecode interpreter). All of these things made improvements, and I think that the freetype autohinter may now do a better job with badly-to-averagely-designed truetype fonts than windows does. But with really excellent fonts, such as Lucida Console, it still isn't as good as windows XP does with cleartype. I'm sure that eventually freetype will get closer in quality to cleartype, but in the meantime is there any chance that somehow the font mechanism could be hijacked/hooked to provide support for native windows fonts, sub-pixel antialialing? I know nothing about it but it seems like one of those things that would probably be a lot of work, so I guess this is wishful thinking. Failing that, might it be reasonable to try to patch xterm to use windows fonts?
Thanks for listening. Lev