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Probably meant rxvt-unicode and not plain rxvt, which doesn't appear to be under development anymore.
by welterde 10y ago
Probably meant rxvt-unicode and not plain rxvt, which doesn't appear to be under development anymore.
- rspeer 10y agoAs a follow-up: I tried urxvt and st, despite the unfriendliness of the fact that you configure urxvt by looking up .Xresources incantations and you configure st by actually editing the code and recompiling it. It seems what we have here is a tradeoff: the font rendering in your terminal can be good, or it can be fast, but perhaps not both given the current options. urxvt and st are doing some kind of very low-level font rendering that doesn't match the fonts I see most of the time on Ubuntu. Whatever antialiasing algorithm they use, if you let them antialias, is a smudgy mess, and not something I would want to look at all day. The result only makes me appreciate more the idea that good, fast, text rendering is something that a new library could help us achieve.
- anthk 10y agoEdit ~/.fonts.conf https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration#Hinting https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration#Hint... I have the hinting style set to slight.