On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2011/6/11 mwnn <mwnnlin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am unable to configure fonts on my new arch linux system. The >> fonts from the old slackware installation are similar to >> http://i.imgur.com/UcwHS.png. The new arch linux fonts look like >> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/695/newemacs.jpg/ > > Hello, > > You do not seem to have a question or a problem that people might try > to solve. Do you have any? > > Regards, > Rémy. > The Slackware fonts are much thicker than the one on Arch. Would like to know how I can configure the fonts on Arch to look similar to Slackware. I have read Archwiki's Fontconfig entry and tried setting various configurations in ~/.fonts.conf. BTW the issue appears only in Emacs and GVIM. Firefox, for example, renders fonts correctly. P.S: I am using icewm as my window manager and xdm as my display manager.
