Re: Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro
On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 13:09:11 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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>
>
It should be ~/.Xresources
You can check if they are read with
$ xrdb -query
or load them manually with
$ xrdb -merge <~/.Xresources
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