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> Terminal Have they fixed font rendering yet? cmd.exe looks better on my laptop
by oguz-ismail 1y ago
> Terminal
Have they fixed font rendering yet? cmd.exe looks better on my laptop
- MortyWaves 1y agoI’ve never noticed any issues on any computer with it…
- recursive 1y agoThe first time I ever saw it, the text already looked better than cmd.exe via conhost.
- oguz-ismail 1y agohttps://imgur.com/a/qA1fr71 https://imgur.com/a/qA1fr71 Something wrong with my eyes? Doesn't cmd.exe look smoother in this screenshot?
- MortyWaves 1y agoI find the Terminal more readable because the white seems brighter in your screenshots
- layer8 1y agoThe color is configurable for both.
- mvdtnz 1y agoTerminal looks far better.
- trenchpilgrim 1y agoMy Terminal looks great! https://imgur.com/a/js6Yzxf https://imgur.com/a/js6Yzxf
- MortyWaves 1y agoLooks like you’ve gone for something like the classic text mode 80x25?
- trenchpilgrim 1y agoMore Perfect DOS with a CRT filter, to remind me of my handmedown MS DOS/Win95 PC from elementary school.
- recursive 1y agoI agree. In those screenshots cmd looks better. Not sure what's up.
- DrinkyBird 1y agoIt's the lack of subpixel anti-aliasing (aka ClearType). For some reason it's being erased from a lot of modern software. It's why Windows >= 8 UWP apps and GNOME look so blurry.
- account42 1y agoIt's just another example of why developers shouldn't be given the fanciest tech available (in this case: high DPI screens) so that they have to experience how actual users see their software.
- Kwpolska 1y agocmd looks pixelated.
- Geezus_42 1y agocmd.exe looks worse to me. Particularly because of the lack of padding on the left.
- Lammy 1y agoHave they fixed it spying on you? https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/terminal/issues/139 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/terminal/issues/139
- crinkly 1y agoWindows is basically spyware at this point. The only way to win is to not play.
- Krssst 1y agoThey probably meant conhost.exe (it gets you the regular console on Windows 11).
- Lammy 1y agoFun fact: if you have Windows Terminal installed, it takes over `conhost.exe` and brings telemetry spying even to old apps which never had it before :D https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/commit/906edf7002b8ccf4d819fcc6f45a68f7815b3252 https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/commit/906edf7002b8ccf...
- throaway920181 1y agoI've only used it through RDP on Wayland and it's been fine visually. Downloading it can be a challenge if you don't know where to look (Github, not Microsoft's App Store...)
- perching_aix 1y agoAre you referring to the pixel-level font smoothing they use by default (as opposed to CMD's subpixel-level font smoothing)? You need to define the "antialiasingMode" key in the settings JSON for the default profile to hold the value "cleartype", rather than "grayscale" (which is the default value). I don't believe this is exposed in the GUI settings page. Note that this only affects the actual terminal emulation area. The rest of the application will still be pixel-level font smoothed (so e.g. the tab titlebars, the settings, etc.).