Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-24 Thread Ionut Georgescu
It is not a bug at all. Antialiased white text on black looks bad. Period. Use a bitmap font. Fontconfig can also use bitmap fonts. Can you choose 'Fixed' in the font selection dialog in Gnome? If not, apt-get install xfonts-base xfonts-base-transcoded and dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig where you hav

Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-24 Thread A Mennucc
Alex Grigorovich wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:53 +0200, A Mennucc wrote: one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any other application that draws white chars over black background, is much worse Try disabling font autoaliasing (Applications->Desktop Pref

Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-24 Thread Ionut Georgescu
My /etc/fonts/local.conf /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/fonts.conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts unknown rgb false true 12 Bitstream false On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:04:51PM +0700, Alex Grigorovich wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:53 +0200, A Men

Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-24 Thread Alex Grigorovich
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:53 +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any > other application > that draws white chars over black background, is much worse Try disabling font autoaliasing (Applications->Desktop Preferences->Font->monochrome under

Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-24 Thread A Mennucc
hi what about this other small snippet of text (in attachment)? on my CRT screen the word "mailbox" is divided in two parts, the left part "mail" (and the vertical bar in the "b") is lighter the right part "box" is darker. I tried to enlarge it, and indeed in the left part many points have a gr

Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/05/05 08:20), s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from A Mennucc: > > > > I just upgraded my box from woody to sarge > > overall the result is OK, but for minor glitches > > > > one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any > > other application > > that draws white char

Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from A Mennucc: > > I just upgraded my box from woody to sarge > overall the result is OK, but for minor glitches > > one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any > other application > that draws white chars over black background, is much worse > > I attach a

Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

2005-05-23 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Use a bitmap font, like "Fixed". Bitmap fonts are enabled per default in fontconfig, but you may want to check it with dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig Or simply use UXTerm with *VT100*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 Ionut On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:53:15PM +0