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@krishean nope, nothing. changnig any other font setting and saving the scite properties immediately takes effect, so i know the settings file works.

@krishean ms sans serif is supposed to be variable width, i'm trying to show that the windowmaker preview doesn't have the gross fake wrong pixel hinting scite does

the terminal is using sundae not ms sans serif, and also doesn't render through pango

@krishean OK, I took the TTF from Win10 and refreshed my cache and restarted windowmaker and scite. Font is not the problem.

linux is a wonderful server software for running blades and racks and microservices

it's 100% an intentional and cruel joke as a desktop system

i'm the embodiment of the proof that linux has not been ready for desktop usage since 2004

@krishean then in this case i don't think it's the problem of the font. ms sans serif renders just fine in XP and it happens to render the very same way in the same font sizes in the windowmaker UI. i don't know what one of the thousands of x11 dependencies windowmaker or scite uses to render fonts. the only place where it seems to not render correctly is scite. i think it's silly for a computer to have more than one way to render a font

@krishean the only thing i can find when i search for "fonts with pixel hinting" are 1000 bullshit articles titled "what is font hinting anyway????"

we have forgotten how to draw fonts for low DPI. it's lost media.

@krishean all the ms fonts i have in this system right now are truetypes from xp, i don't think ms sans serif changed since then? (until it got outright retired anyway)

if you have another source for fonts with good hinting that can be printed without any form of antialiasing at all (something 100% impossible to google for in 2024) please enlighten me. i can't wait for 2024 linux to have a similar capability of font rendering as 1995 windows

ok #linux nerds convince me i can give up windows fixing this one 100% dealbreaker for me. why is ms sans serif rendering like shit in scite and not in windowmaker. don't monkey paw me and make it render like shit in both

@krishean i'm trynig to use the ttfs straight out of windows xp and they display with hinting perfectly inside windowmaker which uses pango. but gtk apps make random letters too bold ??? like a stupid rounding error. i can't fathom it. i hate it

it's loading the right font, but the hinting is totally fucked up. i have no idea why

year of the linux desktop everybody

@krishean do you know how to make it start without the window size being bigger than my desktop resolution

@krishean it's the only text editor i could find that 1. didn't have 100 dependencies 2. didn't try to override windowmaker window trimmings and window title

we're getting somewhere

systemd considered harmful

@zwol it doesn't. it turns out this is by fault of me naively trying to use pcf and bdf fonts which the enlightened gnome pango developers know better than me than to let me do that

@fxdc@tech.lgbt the last year i had fun with linux was maybe 2014

@fxdc@tech.lgbt year of the linux desktop!!!!1