How to get nice, smooth, X11 fonts in your terminal and editors

“If your using an LCD you can set Xft.rgba to rgba to do
sub-pixel smoothing. Personally I don’t like it, but it could just
be the LCDs I’m using. Also, if the font your using supports
different levels of hinting, you can change Xft.hintstyle to
‘hintslight’, ‘hintsfull’, ‘hintsmedium’, or ‘hintsnone’. All fonts
seem to do these differently, so you have to experiment a little
bit.

“After you change your ~/.Xdefaults, you have to merge it to
your current running settings (or restart X, but who wants to do
that). Merge your changes with ‘xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults’.”

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