[openbox] Curious about font rendering (correx -- using OB 3.3)

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Peter N. Spotts wrote:

> Mornin' folks (at least here on the US East Coast...),
>
> I'm enjoying OB3.3 on my laptop (SuSE 10.1). But I've noticed a odd
> difference in the way fonts get rendered in OB versus a window manager
> such as Xfce, which I've played with a bit. For example, when running
> Sylpheed-Claws, and new mail arrives, the inbox should go bold, as well
> as pick up a color (in this case, blue). On OB3, bold shows up as
> barely larger and blacker (although the blue shows up). On Xfce, bold
> (in the same font and size) shows up substantially thicker. I've also
> noticed that Xfce often makes 11 pt type (which shows up normally on
> OB3) look a couple of points larger. To knock them down to the right
> apparent size, I have to drop the point size from 11 to 9 -- which, of
> course, makes the type look unreadable back on OB3, because it appears
> to be getting the point size correct. The font, btw, is MUTT ClearlyU
> PUA. I haven't tried other fonts to see if that makes any difference
> ion the bold rendering...Should one expect to see fonts treated
> slightly differently by different window managers? Just curious...
>
> Best,
>
> Pete

I think you're a bit confused, the window manager has nothing to do with 
what goes on _inside_ the clients' windows. Xfce however is not a window 
manager and may be doing some funny stuff. Most likely you start X in 
different ways and the DPI ends up with different values.

--
Mikael Magnusson