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I'm running 19.04 and I followed Full font hinting not working in Ubuntu 18.04 to enable full font hinting. It works for graphical applications such as Chromium, but not my terminal (urxvt). How do I enable full font hinting for urxvt?

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Here is a side-by-side screenshot of urxvt (left) vs. emacs (right). emacs' font is slightly crisper. I'll admit the difference doesn't look that impressive, but at work I use a 4K monitor with the resolution set to 1920x1080, and for whatever reason the difference is much more pronounced.

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Here are the contents of my ~/.Xresources:

URxvt.foreground: #F2F2F2
URxvt.background: #000000
URxvt.font: xft:Monospace:size=15
URxvt.perl-ext-common: selection-to-clipboard,font-size
URxvt.font-size.step: 1
URxvt.keysym.C-equal: perl:font-size:increase

/* stop Ctrl-Shift from entering ISO 14755 mode */
URxvt.iso14755: false
URxvt.iso14755_52: false

/* font-size plugin from https://github.com/majutsushi/urxvt-font-size */
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    Can you include a side-by-side image of Chromium and urxvt?
    – DK Bose
    May 15, 2019 at 3:33
  • And what do you have in ~/.Xresources?
    – DK Bose
    May 15, 2019 at 3:43
  • I edited my question to include the requested information.
    – jth
    May 15, 2019 at 4:32

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Full font hinting is done with lines like Xft*hintstyle: hintfull and Xft*hinting: true. They can be added to your ~/.Xdefaults file. Here are some lines in mine:

Xft*dpi: 82
Xft*antialias: true
Xft*hinting: true
Xft*rgba: rgb
Xft*autohint: false
Xft*hintstyle: hintfull
Xft*lcdfilter: lcddefault

URxvt*letterSpace: -2

There are many things that you can add like also choosing different fonts, etc. You can play around with the settings till you get something you like. Everybody's different.:

URxvt.intensityStyles: false
URxvt.allow_bold: false
URxvt.font: xft:Ubuntu Mono:style=Regular:pixelsize=17
URxvt.boldFont: xft:Ubuntu Mono:style=Bold:pixelsize=17  
URxvt.saveLines: 8192

After you launch urxvt it should look something like the following:

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Hope this helps (some)!

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    Thank you, I will try this out tomorrow and report the results.
    – jth
    May 15, 2019 at 4:37
  • @jth These lines could also be added to your ~/.Xresources. I've only used the ~/.Xdefaults but I don't think it matters as I think they both load just fine.
    – Terrance
    May 15, 2019 at 13:43

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