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Bug#585620: xterm: Please consider defaulting to freetype font rendering



On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 08:44:07 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 
> >Package: xterm
> >Version: 259-1
> >Severity: wishlist
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >Utilising FreeType is already done for most of the other common
> >terminal emulators in Debian, and looks vastly better, as well
> >as not using the archaic XLFD/X11 Core Fonts.
> 
> actually, monospace/14 is less legible on my display than 10x20
> (both, of course use the same archaic alphabet)
> 
I've never found an Xft font I found as legible as the default core font
in xterm, so I'm a bit reluctant to make that change...

Cheers,
Julien

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