How do I make urxvt render xft fonts?

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Published on 2011-01-20T13:58:07Z Indexed on 2011/11/14 18:13 UTC
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I wonder whether there's a way to make urxvt render xft fonts:

URxvt.font: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Regular
URxvt.boldFont: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Bold
URxvt.talicFont: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Italic
URxvt.bolditalicFont: xft:Droid Sans Mono Slashed:pixelsize=9:Bold:Italic

If I try this, I get something like: alt text

So it scales pretty bad:

 ! Fonts
 Xft.dpi:        132
 Xft.antialias:  true
 Xft.rgba:       rgb
 Xft.hinting:    true
 Xft.autohint:  true
 Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull

I'm not sure whether this is one of the reaons. However I want antialias and that Droid. Is there any trick here?

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