Ugly xterm fonts on LCD

Alexander Gottwald alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Sat Jan 29 23:06:00 GMT 2005


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, David Rudolph wrote:

> I?m running xterm under Cygwin on my new Dell Windows XP with an LCD 
> monitor (1280x1024).  The fonts look ugly.  I've tried every imaginable 
> font, I've Googled and tried various solutions suggested such as putting 
> :unscaled in the font path, but nothing changes.  When I do ?xdpyinfo | 
> grep RENDER?, I get nothing, which apparently means that I can't use 
> truetype fonts.  My video card is a Radeon X300 SE. Anyone know how to 
> make the fonts look better?

I can not verify that until monday. But render should be enabled. Start xterm
with xterm -fa Courier to use clientside fonts.

bye
	ago
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