On 7 June 2010 13:52, Joshua Murphy <poiso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Saturday 05 June 2010 19:13:24 Mick wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I emerged rxvt-unicode because aterm which I have been using faithfully for >>> years does not do UTF8, but as you can see in the attachment all bold >>> characters look distorted. In xterm and aterm they look nice and clear >>> when bold. >>> >>> How can I fix this? >> >> It seems that it was a limitation of the fixed font that I had defined for >> aterm in .Xresources: >> >> aterm*font:-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*-100-*-*-*-*-* >> >> Setting a different font and using xft seems to overcome this problem: >> >> /usr/bin/urxvt -pe tabbed -fn "x:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=15" >> >> No idea why aterm copes with fixed font and urxvt does not ... >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Mick > > The 'why' I can answer. Aterm doesn't do antialiasing for the fonts > while urxvt does, and the 'fixed' font wasn't made to be able to > handle antialiasing cleanly.
Thanks, it makes sense now. -- Regards, Mick
