Documentation?

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Thu Apr 9 07:07:39 PDT 2009


On 04/09/2009 10:03 AM, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
> Twas brillig at 10:00:44 09.04.2009 UTC-04 when behdad at behdad.org did gyre and gimble:
>
>   BE>  Xft and cairo have (shared) XRDB keys for antialiasing and other
>   BE>  stuff, but not dpi.  GTK+ uses XSETTINGS for those as well as DPI,
>   BE>  and those are per-screen.  gnome-settings-daemon populates them
>   BE>  based on user's preferences stored in gconf.
>
> Well, I meant something more radical.
>
> "Use Terminus-8, without AA for this notebook, and RFX Courier-16, AA,
> fully-hinted for this big screen".

Fontconfig's extensible nature allows for things like that easily if we can 
come up with a way to discriminate different displays.  I let the dust around 
xrandr 1.2 support in GTK+ settle a bit before approaching that problem.

behdad



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