On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:26 PM, mwnn <mwnnlin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > The following .fonts.conf file did the trick: <?xml version='1.0'?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'> <fontconfig> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="rgba"> <const>none</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="hinting"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"> <const>hintnone</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> </fontconfig>
