[arch-general] Dejavu sans mono fonts rendering issue.

[mwnn]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:26 PM, mwnn <mwnnlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Rémy Oudompheng
> <remyoudompheng at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2011/6/11 mwnn <mwnnlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>

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>