Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (23/05/05 08:20), s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from A Mennucc:
> > 
> > I just upgraded my box from woody to sarge
> > overall the result is OK, but for minor glitches
> > 
> > one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any 
> > other application
> > that draws white chars over black background, is much worse
> > 
> > I attach a snapshot of the window: as you can see , some characters are 
> > almost unreadable
> > (for example the 'o' do not look like circles but rather as squares 
> > without corners)
> 
> Actually, I can't see that.  It looks fine to me.  Could this be some
> sort of misconfiguration of X on your box?

Yes, It didn't look bad to me either.  Perhaps a higher resolution is
the answer.

Regards

Clive

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