font differences between xorg vs. xfree86?

[Mike A. Harris]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Are my eyes deceiving me, or is "MiscFixed" not the same font in xorg as
>> it was in XFree?  I've been using MiscFixed in my shells for quite some
>> time and was shocked at how bad it looked after switching to the xorg
>> packages.  
>
>It should certainly match 4.4. I'm not sure if the font changed from
>4.3 (seems unlikely since it would be like demolishing historical
>monuments) or xterm has grown some new antaliasing and stuff.

xterm has had the option of doing antialiasing since XFree86 
4.2.0 or possibly even 4.1.0, not sure.

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OS Systems Engineer - X.org X11 maintainer - Red Hat