Emacs font with antialiasing and hinting

Question

I'm using Fedora 17 and Emacs 24 and wanted to try liberation fonts on Emacs. I've tried this with HOME/.Xresources:

Xft.antialias:  1
Xft.dpi:    96
Xft.hinting:    1
Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight
Xft.lcdfilter:  lcddefault
Xft.rgba:   rgb
Emacs.font: Liberation Mono-12

That changes only normal text, but not other text such as ORG-MODE headings. I don't know if antialiasing is working either.

I've also tried:

(set-fontset-font
nil '(#x0250 . #x02af) (font-spec :family "Liberation Mono"))

but it's still the same.

Answer 1

Check to make sure that the org-mode faces are set to inherit correctly from the default face.

Answer 2

I put the following bit of code in my .emacs.d to change the default font:

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Ubuntu Mono" :height 120 :weight 'normal)

Whether the font is being anti-aliased and hinted is dependent on the program drawing the emacs window. So if you're running the X Windows version of Emacs inside Gnome or KDE, then Gnome/KDE will draw the fonts as hinted and anti-aliased. If you're running emacs inside a terminal, then you need to research how to use anti-aliased and hinted fonts inside the terminal (which if you're using a terminal emulator inside of a window manager is still tied to the abilities of the window manager itself).