On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:54:25 -0800 Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > I plan to use gnome2-emulating Mate with newer distros > (specifically, from Scientific Linux 6 to S.L.7, then to > CentOS 8 someday). > > However, I vaguely recall being told that gnome3 can be > configured to behave very much like gnome2.
Sadly, this seems to be very much NOT true. I've spent the last week trying to make either Gnome3 or Gnome classic or Mate behave like I was used to, and failed. Indeed, the worst behavior was the text pixel rendering in an xterm. After spending hours trying various frobs with fonts and scaling and hinting, I could not make the characters crisp and clean like gnome 2. I use a pattern like this for rendering tests in xterms: 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888880 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj ÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅ M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M Cheesy ascii-art example for "mmMjÅ" characters in a 6*13 matrix on gnome2: .............................. ..........................█... .........................█.█.. ............█...█.....█...█... ██.█..██.█..██.██.........█... █.█.█.█.█.█.█.█.█....██..█.█.. █.█.█.█.█.█.█.█.█.....█.█...█. █.█.█.█.█.█.█...█.....█.█...█. █.█.█.█.█.█.█...█.....█.█████. █...█.█...█.█...█.....█.█...█. █...█.█...█.█...█..█..█.█...█. ...................█..█....... ....................██........ Each "." "white" pixel is a three stripe "RGB" on my laptop screen using gnome2. With gnome3, the leading two pixels of each character are a half-brightness smear. If I turn off hinting, some pixels vanish. Rows of "MMM" turn into a grey smear. What can I use for a compact 6x13 pixel font in Gnome3, without smearing? Most of my screens are 1024x768. Low resolution, but so are my eyes. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
