Font rendering is different when using -multiwindow

2013-06-11 Thread Matt D.
When running applications with a full-screen or -rootless X session, fonts look fine. But when running the same application using the -multiwindow switch, fonts are rendered oddly and are difficult to read. Here are some examples: Correct (full screen or rootless): http://codespunk.com/files/u

Re: Font rendering is different when using -multiwindow

2013-06-11 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 11/06/2013 08:14, Matt D. wrote: > When running applications with a full-screen or -rootless X session, fonts > look fine. But when running the same application using the -multiwindow > switch, fonts are rendered oddly and are difficult to read. > > Here are some examples: > > Correct (full sc

Re: Font rendering is different when using -multiwindow

2013-06-11 Thread Matt D.
To add some additional information, I am having the font rendering issue when connecting my X session to a remote CentOS 6.4 machine. I cannot duplicate the issue when running applications locally through Cygwin. I'm having some trouble narrowing this down but here are the results of my tests:

Re: Font rendering is different when using -multiwindow

2013-06-11 Thread Matt D.
I'm unfamiliar with X but I've been digging around the source code to see if I can find anything. It seems like all of the text drawing is done by functions in dixfont.c, is this correct? Is there a different rasterizer between normal and multiwindowed mode? I tried specifying all of the var

Re: Font rendering is different when using -multiwindow

2013-06-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 11/06/2013 21:08, Matt D. wrote: > To add some additional information, I am having the font rendering issue > when connecting my X session to a remote CentOS 6.4 machine. I cannot > duplicate the issue when running applications locally through Cygwin. > I'm having some trouble narrowing this dow