[desktop-discuss] emacs and anti-aliased fonts

[Sebastien Roy]

Sebastien Roy wrote:
> I'm looking for a version of Emacs on Solaris that can display modern 
> anti-aliased fonts.  Evidently, people have something working for Ubuntu 
> Linux:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs
> 
> I can grab the CVS sources at this site, and they configure and compile 
> flawlessly following the directions stated there.  It just doesn't 
> display anti-aliased fonts as advertised on Solaris.
> 
> Does anyone have Emacs with anti-aliased fonts working on Solaris?

I evidently "spoke" much too soon.  This actually works!

$ emacs --font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-12"

Does the right thing.  The intro Emacs buffer still looks like garbage 
(which is what threw me off), but other buffers use the proper font.

-Seb