add following line in your .xinitrc xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
or just try this command in terminal and then restart emacs 2012/9/18 Simao Mata <[email protected]> > Hello, > > I installed Awesome Wm on ubuntu 12.04 and I am having some problems > with font rendering (suprise surprise :)) > > I am running awesome like this in my .xinitrc: > > gnome-settings-daemon & > nm-applet & > gnome-power-manager & > gnome-volume-manager & > eval `gnome-keyring-daemon` > exec awesome > > The problem is that not all applications have decent font rendering. > > When I am using emacs in gnome shell, I get nice fonts, but when I am > using it in awesome wm, no anti-aliasing is used and the text is > almost unreadable if you are used to the standard ubuntu font > rendering. > > The same happens with terminator and gnome-terminal. > > Firefox on the other hand, renders web site fonts properly, but the > top menus and context menus (drawn with gtk (?)) are also using very > ugly font rendering. > > I tried using the ~/.fonts.conf file referenced in the wiki, and it > does improve a bit, but not by much and not in all applications. > > I also tried using the following .Xresources: > > Xft.antialias: true > Xft.hinting: true > Xft.hintstyle: hintlight > Xft.rgba: rgb > > But apparently nothing changed. > > Is it possible to configure awesome to always use the same font > rendering as gnome-shell is using? > > Thank you very much for your help. > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. > >
