Update, 7 August 2009: the most recent major release of Emacs (v. 23.1) now has the anti-aliased font support. See the Ubuntu elisp PPA, which contains packages for any recent Ubuntu release, or see installation instructions for various other platforms.
The latest emacs-snapshot-gtk packages in Ubuntu Hardy (1:20080228-1) have the Unicode/font changes merged, and now support anti-aliased fonts for the first time.
While I didn't really mind the old bitmap fonts, I have to say that anti-aliasing is gorgeous.
To activate the new fonts, I added the following line to my ~/.Xdefaults:
Emacs.font: Monospace-8Then, I ensured that the settings in .Xdefaults are being loaded by adding the following to my ~/.xsession:
if [ -f $HOME/.Xdefaults ]; then
xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults
fi
Anti-aliased fonts in only a few seconds!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for the tip....
You do not need your strange config. Just insert the following line to your .emacs.el
ReplyDelete(set-default-font "DejaVu Sans Mono-11")
Or whatever Font you need. The Font can be copied directly from OpenOffice. The -11 means that 11pt should be used.
Thanks for the hint.
I was really sick of compiling emacs all the time.
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ReplyDeleteref: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa
ReplyDeleteIn Hardy, if you install the dev version from launchpad, you get anti-alias fonts and much newer version of emacs. Use Synaptics to add 3rd party repository...
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-elisp/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
install key...
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys D62FCE72
install emacs gtk
sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk
add to emacs startup file or edit .Xdefaults to change font. Now you have latest version of emacs with gtk and anti-aliased fonts!
$cat .Xdefaults
Emacs.font: Monospace-8
You may or may not have to edit .xession
~$ cat .xsession
if [ -f $HOME/.Xdefaults ]; then
xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults
fi
exec gnome-session
Don't forget apt-get update
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