On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2011/6/11 mwnn <mwnnlin@gmail.com> wrote:

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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.

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 9:43 AM, mwnn <mwnnlin@gmail.com> wrote:

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>

The slackware screenshot looks more like: <?xml version='1.0'?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'> <fontconfig> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="rgba"> <const>rgb</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="hinting"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"> <const>hintslight</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> </fontconfig>