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wishi
Asked: 2011-01-21 05:58:07 +0800 CST

How do I make urxvt render xft fonts?

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I wonder whether there's a way to make urxvt render xft fonts:

URxvt.font: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Regular
URxvt.boldFont: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Bold
URxvt.talicFont: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Italic
URxvt.bolditalicFont: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Bold:Italic

If I try this, I get something like: alt text

So it scales pretty bad:

 ! Fonts
 Xft.dpi:        132
 Xft.antialias:  true
 Xft.rgba:       rgb
 Xft.hinting:    true
 Xft.autohint:  true
 Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull

I'm not sure whether this is one of the reaons. However I want antialias and that Droid. Is there any trick here?

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5 Answers

  1. urxvt will use a default font if it cannot find the xft font name you specify. For example, the following will look like your screenshot:

    urxvt -fn 'xft:foo'

    To find out which xft fonts you have available, run:

    fc-list

    Here is how I run urxvt with the beautiful Ubuntu Monospace font:

    urxvt -fn "xft:Ubuntu Mono:pixelsize=14,style=regular"
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  2. I got it just working with command line option "-letsp -1", see also

    http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2009/11/how-make-urxvt-look-gnome-terminal/

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  3. If I remember, the spacing was fixed by 

    URxvt*letterSpace: -2

    This is my .Xresources: 

    Xft.dpi:                    96
Xft.antialias:              true
Xft.rgba:                   rgb
Xft.hinting:                true
Xft.hintstyle:              hintslight

URxvt.depth: 0

URxvt.intensityStyles:  false                                       
! Turn it on here... (then boldFont)
URxvt.allow_bold:       false                                        
URxvt.font:             xft:Ubuntu Mono:style=Regular:pixelsize=17
! ... but put this on Regular, else the ls output is overly fat
URxvt.boldFont:         xft:Ubuntu Mono:style=Bold:pixelsize=17  
URxvt.saveLines:        8192


! Fix font space
! any larger than -1 I dont like
URxvt*letterSpace: -2
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  4. I have this in my .Xdefaults and Droid Sans Mono looks great:

    
!-- Xft settings -- !
Xft.dpi:        96
Xft.antialias:  true
Xft.rgba:       rgb
Xft.hinting:    true
Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight

! -- Fonts -- !
URxvt.font:xft:droid sans mono slashed:medium:pixelsize=11
URxvt.boldFont:xft:droid sans mono slashed:medium:pixelsize=11
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  5. Please note that there's a bug report regarding letter spacing. There's a work-around, though, which was proposed in the bug discussion and which I repeated over at unix.stackexchange.com (in case you can't find it).

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