[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] [Bug 309792] Re: rxvt-unicode: Excessive font spacing

kevind 309792 at bugs.launchpad.net
Sat Apr 30 08:26:23 UTC 2011


Adam, thanks for testing, but your workaround doesn't seem to work for
me. Is it possible to use xrdb -load for a file that (apparently) has
already been loaded with xrdb -merge? Editing a file and calling xrdb
-load like you did doesn't change the issue for me.

Two more workarounds however are (since the problem is apparently with
XFT):

- Use non-FreeType font like in the following line:
URxvt.font: -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

- Disable XFT (then you could leave FreeType font) with the following ~/.fonts.conf (correct the dir):
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
    <dir>/home/kevin/.Fontmatrix/Activated</dir>
	<match target="font">
		<edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
			<bool>false</bool>
		</edit>
	</match> 
</fontconfig>

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Title:
  rxvt-unicode: Excessive font spacing

Status in “rxvt-unicode” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: rxvt-unicode

  I'm having a problem with font spacing in urxvt. All characters seem
  to have excessive white-space in between each other. I use DejaVu Sans
  Mono (size 8) and there is a big difference between xterm and urxvt.

  Heres a mockup of what I mean: http://i35.tinypic.com/qsmp.png
  (stolen from an ArchLinux forum post here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=55634 and another related
  thread here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44800)

  My .Xdefaults looks like this:

  urxvt.font:                 xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=8





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