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@abeltramo see my previous posts about each one of those options

next time someone tells me to try Linux instead of windows i'll just shove this thread in their face

but maybe Wayland will fix everything once it finally releases in 20 years

not that it'll run on any current, let alone older, machines we currently own

you're lucky if the same hardware heavily supported 10 years ago by xorg and mesa even boots today

but hey mesa-amber huh

face it we all gave Linux a shot in the early 2000s because we saw that video of compiz doing the 3d workspace switching thing and thought that was the pinnacle of desktop UI and later lied to ourselves it was because free as in beer or speech software was somehow better than pirating windows xp and now the stronghold of gnome is making you use a worse version of mac os you have to manually fix every update or let go of whatever customisations have even survived this far

2024 linux still to this day has no equivalent to Windows 3.11 Microsoft paint or Microsoft notepad and honestly that's very sad for an operating system that is still trying to break into the desktop market started by apple in 1983 with the Lisa

if i want a gui text editor that doesn't use gtk for the sole reason that gnome has not learned in 20 years how to render fonts in a half competent way and you tell me to use vim or emacs i'll make you use windows 95 for a week to learn to use a mouse

@mrklein at a glance very promising. i'll check tomorrow!

@delightfuldude i think pointing devices are the future

@tchauhan i like my mouse

i am asking this because i want a text editor in windowmanager that does not have the broken gtk font rendering

@lilongueti it also tries to install all of kde with it, which is less than ideal in windowmanager

@krishean and no amount of changing supposedly GTK settings in any one of the 50 different configuration files such as xdefautls xresources lxappearance gtk-query-settings etc have any effect on font rendering. Your computer is yours as long as you accept the maintainer's love for autohinting

@krishean precisely.

@krishean windowmaker also uses pango, which is why bdf and pcf fonts no longer load and i have to manually convert them to otb. however this doesn't affect gtk font autohinting

is there a linux text editor that doesn't use gtk

@krishean best i can tell is gtk font rendering and gtk font rendering alone forces autohinting even if the font already carries manual hinting because gnome maintainers are allergic to bitmap fonts and fonts that are already made for low dpi. non gtk font renderers render my fonts-with-already-hinting without issues.

@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