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

[Peter N. Spotts]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 17:33:23 +0200 (CEST)
Mikael Magnusson <mangosoft at comhem.se> wrote:

> 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

Many thanks...

Pete

-- 
Peter N. Spotts | Science reporter
The Christian Science Monitor
One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02115 USA
Office: 617-450-2449 | Office-in-home: 508-520-3139
Email: pspotts at alum.mit.edu | Amateur radio call: KC1JB
www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net