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How can I turn off anti-aliasing for xterm / rxvt-unicode?

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Mar 15, 20268723 views
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My system (Debian squeeze) uses anti-aliasing for fonts, which is fine for the most part. However, I would like to disable it for terminal fonts in xterm and urxvt (rxvt-unicode), and can't get that to work. I tried using , like explained e.g. in the urxvt man page (search for "antialias"), but it …

Error Output

urxvt -fn "xft:Deja Vu Sans Mono:pixelsize=10:antialias=false"

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Usually xterm does not apply antialiasing to fonts. However, I think some windowmanagers like compiz generally apply antialias to windows, hence your problem would be your window manager, not your terminal emulator. Try checking your window manager …

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