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Vlad Vivdovitch
Vlad Vivdovitch

Reputation: 9815

Turn off anti-aliasing in Emacs

I'm using Proggy (ProggyCleanTTSZ 12 in .Xdefaults) font in Emacs. I'm not happy with how my OS (Ubuntu 10.10) applies anti-aliasing to it. How do I disable it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1806

Answers (2)

Dean Serenevy
Dean Serenevy

Reputation: 1294

You can set font options in your .Xdefaults (or .Xresources - whichever you are using). This allows you to disable anti-aliasing in emacs, but still have it enabled elsewhere.

emacs*font:  ProggyCleanTTSZ-12:antialias=false

See also the fontconfig user guide

Upvotes: 4

deong
deong

Reputation: 3870

Font rendering is generally handled by the OS libraries rather than the application, so you need to tell Ubuntu not to anti-alias that particular font. It's been a few years since I worked much on Linux, but if things haven't changed, you can configure this by editing a file (maybe something like /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or ~/.fonts.conf or something similar).

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts#Manual_Font_Smoothing might help.

Upvotes: 2

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