From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4701 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter K. Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:43:31 -0800 Message-ID: References: <42345abc$0$1078$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> <39l973F60qa11U1@individual.net> <42359857$0$26554$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <16949.42079.854993.937945@parhasard.net> <4235b0e4$0$1078$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670619 24522 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:23:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:23:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:11 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.182.100.49 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1111091636 8282 209.182.100.49 (17 Mar 2005 20:33:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: Peter Petersen User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:awxy8tWdnCg5l+j450a7cBd8NuY= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4842 Original-Lines: 13 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4842 Tue Jan 17 17:34:11 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4701 Archived-At: Not sure if this is an option, but when I ran into the same problem, I ended up using 'emacs -nw' Use a terminal emulator (i.e. gnome-terminal, rxvt, etc.) that has Xft support, and run emacs in non-windows mode. This way, you can even get transparency that comes with the terminal. :) It *does* take getting used to though... Cheers, Peter