Re: Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro

[Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>]

On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 13:18:11 +0200
David Dušanić <ivanovnegro@gmail.com> wrote:

> 31.05.2014, 18:59, "Steve Litt" <slitt@troubleshooters.com>:
> > On Sat, 31 May 2014 08:51:13 -0400
> > Tony Baldwin <tony@tonybaldwin.info> wrote:
> >>  Sawfish and openbox, even metacity would fit in this last "just
> >>  manages windows" category, and, in fact, don't even include a
> >> panel, which I think JWM has by default.
> >
> > You're just the person I need to talk to, Tony. Right now I've
> > switched over from Xfce to Openbox, and like it. Except for one
> > thing: the fonts look a whole lot worse on Openbox, and I have very
> > bad vision, so this isn't aesthetics: It affects the speed at which
> > I work. Do you know of a way to make fonts on Openbox look like the
> > ones on Xfce?
> 
> I would make an .Xdefaults/.Xresources in your home folder with this
> e.g.:
> 
> Xft.autohint: 0
> Xft.antialias: 1
> Xft.hinting: true
> Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
> Xft.dpi: 96
> Xft.rgba: rgb
> Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault

I added those to my ~/.Xdefaults, and whether I set Xft.dpi to 96, 48,
or 192, it always looked the same, so I doubt that these things are
being read or acted upon.

Thanks,

SteveT

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