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

[kevind]

I mistaken, you do not need to have that <dir> entry at all, unless it
was added by Fontmatrix program like it was for on my system. Add
remember that this will disable XFT system-wide. You need to add the
following entries in ~/.fonts.conf in their respective sections:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <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