termite font not rendered like Mint

chebyshev · 2017-12-14 14:10:30

Over the last day or so I've installed Arch in a VM on my work machine to replace a Linux Mint VM that I'd been using. I most use terminals with i3 anyway, so why have all the extra stuff in Mint?

Everything is good except that I can't get the font to render the same way in termite (my terminal emulator). As I do most work in the terminal, this is important to me.

I use 'Fira Mono for Powerline' as my terminal font from https://github.com/powerline/fonts/tree/master/FiraMono.

Here's what it looks like in Arch:

https://i.imgur.com/Qr81nWP.png

and the same thing in Mint:

https://i.imgur.com/LwHS5Tv.png

You can see that the font is "thicker" in Mint (I don't know how else to describe it).

I've gone through a ton of forums topics about fontconfig stuff, but changing the hinting, antialiasing, etc. doesn't make it look the same.

Can anyone diagnose this? What do I need to change?

EDIT: Compliance with Code of Conduct

Last edited by chebyshev (2017-12-14 15:14:31)

jasonwryan · 2017-12-14 15:06:34

Read the Code of Conduct and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cod … s_and_code

seth · 2017-12-14 15:35:21

Read this and the following section https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … on#Hinting

chebyshev · 2017-12-14 15:46:35

I've been through that - I'm using slight hinting and RGB subpixel rendering, just like on my Mint installation. I enabled these by linking the appropriate .conf files from /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ into /etc/fonts/conf.d/. I also enabled antialiasing by creating a new file, 10-antialiasing.conf:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<!--  Use the Antialiasing --> 
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

seth · 2017-12-14 16:23:54

Did you see the note in the subpixel rendering section?

chebyshev · 2017-12-14 17:20:21

I did read that and I think the default in versions > 2.7 is "minimal mode" (40). I've left it at that, but I can't find a similar configuration option on my Mint install, so maybe this is the thing that I need to match.

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termite font not rendered like Mint

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