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I think you have a bad setup. I've been using p9p for years as my main desktop and I know 10s of others that do the same. try setting your font= variable in $h

I think you have a bad setup. I've been using p9p for years as my main desktop and I know 10s of others that do the same. try setting your font= variable in $home/lib/profile You can also mail the dev mailing list and see if anyone can help you. http://groups.google.com/group/plan9port-dev http://groups.google.com/group/plan9port-dev Do you not get output like the screenshots ? http://swtch.com/plan9port/screenshots/ http://swtch.com/plan9port/screenshots/

sielskr 16y ago
I got output like the screenshots. In http://swtch.com/plan9port/screenshots/macosx1.png http://swtch.com/plan9port/screenshots/macosx1.png, the lack of smoothing is most noticeable in the forward slashes. I tried all the things you suggest except that I mailed 9fans, not plan9port-dev. Bad setup strikes me as extremely unlikely because I tried twice (p9p on Linux, then 9vx on OS X) and because the responses I got on 9fans were two hacks which add text smoothing to Plan 9. (The two hacks were unsatisfactory, as the characters had inconsistent spacing and artifacts surrounded the glyphs sometimes.) Again, if all the text I look at during a session at the computer were rendered by Plan 9, I could probably get used to it (since I ran Linux in text mode for years, and the text mode on my video card had no smoothing unless I am very, very much mistaken), but that would be impractical because Plan 9 does not have a satisfactory graphical web browser. You're not going to contest that last statement, are you? Heck, even Russ Cox does not use Plan 9 for browsing the web.
- wendroid 16y ago
  My car doesn't have a stereo either. Plan9 has three graphical web browsers but no, not CSS3 & JS. Russ doesn't even run a Plan9 terminal at all so he's not much of a benchmark. If web browsing is what you use your computer for, then perhaps Plan9 is not for you. Plan9 doesn't have anti-aliased fonts by default as it uses bitmap fonts. There are unofficial builds that use TTF fonts (I run one of those) and also some other NDA goodies. I think perhaps the TTF will migrate back into the main.

sielskr 16y ago

I got output like the screenshots. In http://swtch.com/plan9port/screenshots/macosx1.png http://swtch.com/plan9port/screenshots/macosx1.png, the lack of smoothing is most noticeable in the forward slashes. I tried all the things you suggest except that I mailed 9fans, not plan9port-dev. Bad setup strikes me as extremely unlikely because I tried twice (p9p on Linux, then 9vx on OS X) and because the responses I got on 9fans were two hacks which add text smoothing to Plan 9. (The two hacks were unsatisfactory, as the characters had inconsistent spacing and artifacts surrounded the glyphs sometimes.) Again, if all the text I look at during a session at the computer were rendered by Plan 9, I could probably get used to it (since I ran Linux in text mode for years, and the text mode on my video card had no smoothing unless I am very, very much mistaken), but that would be impractical because Plan 9 does not have a satisfactory graphical web browser. You're not going to contest that last statement, are you? Heck, even Russ Cox does not use Plan 9 for browsing the web.

wendroid 16y ago
My car doesn't have a stereo either. Plan9 has three graphical web browsers but no, not CSS3 & JS. Russ doesn't even run a Plan9 terminal at all so he's not much of a benchmark. If web browsing is what you use your computer for, then perhaps Plan9 is not for you. Plan9 doesn't have anti-aliased fonts by default as it uses bitmap fonts. There are unofficial builds that use TTF fonts (I run one of those) and also some other NDA goodies. I think perhaps the TTF will migrate back into the main.