Ticket #328 (new defect)
add "Xft.rgba: 1" to the Xresources so that subpixel rendering is used
| Reported by: | stuart56 | Owned by: | ppronchery |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | build | Version: | trunk |
| Severity: | major | Keywords: | |
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Description
~/.Xresources (or a file in /etc/X11/Xresources/) should contain
Xft.rgba: 1
so that subpixel antialiasing is used rather than grey level antialiasing.
Please see http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/xtc2001/paper/ for where I found the different values.
If the screen is rotated the current value becomes "3" (vrgb).
Attachments
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xterm-orig.png
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added by stuart56 3 years ago.
- screen shop of Xterm without rgba
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xterm-rgba.png
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added by stuart56 3 years ago.
- screen shot of Xterm with: Xft.rgba: 1
Change History
Changed 3 years ago by stuart56
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xterm-orig.png
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Changed 3 years ago by stuart56
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xterm-rgba.png
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screen shot of Xterm with: Xft.rgba: 1
comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by stuart56
- Summary changed from add "Xft.rgba: 1" to the Xresources so that subpixel aliasing is correct to add "Xft.rgba: 1" to the Xresources so that subpixel rendering is used
Please look at the attached screen shots to see the differences. You need to zoom the images (with the "Smooth images when zoomed" option turned off in eog) to see the differences.
I think that the results with "Xft.rgba:1" are more readable (on the FR). The text is sharper (less fuzzy) because with subpixel rendering freetype has more control over the pixels of each characters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
screen shop of Xterm without rgba