Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@zoho.com> writes:
after the last upgrade GTK2 apps running in an openbox session need more space, they became darker and in some windows even the fonts became less good readable. The reason that I dropped desktop environments was to get rid of chaotic designs and to keep a clear design and now even GTK2 apps in an openbox session became a parody.
For me, the recent fontconfig package in testing has changed the way bold fonts are rendered. I have downgraded fontconfig manually since I couldn't find a way to fix this. With 2.11.94: http://msujith.org/dir/img/before-fontconfig-update.png With 2.11.95: http://msujith.org/dir/img/after-fontconfig-update.png I use the Greybird theme for gtk2 applications and it seems to be okay. gtk-3.20 has changed theming and so all themes need to be updated. After gtk-3.20, Greybird broke and I had to remove it from gtk-3.0/settings.ini and use the default theme. https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2015/11/20/a-gtk-update/ All of this hand-holding is just painful and sometimes I just want to compile Emacs with --with-x-toolkit=lucid and be done. :-) Sujith