Konsole fonts: just a jump o the left

Duncan 1i5t5.duncan at cox.net
Thu Nov 17 15:27:55 GMT 2011


Felix Miata posted on Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:43:18 -0500 as excerpted:

> On 2011/11/17 13:16 (GMT+0200) Dotan Cohen composed:
> 
>> Felix Miata  wrote:
> 
>>>  Long time ago. Don't remember whether bug filed in a distro or in
>>>  KDE, but got fixed. I looked and couldn't find it. Did you try a
>>>  different font family with similar result, like Droid Sans Mono or
>>>  DejaVu Sans Mono?
> 
>> Most of the fonts do suffer this, and all the legible ones. There do
>> exits fonts (FreeMono for instance) which do not suffer.
> 
> Turns out the bug I had in mind isn't yet closed:
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58615
> 
> I forgot about this one: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57564
> 
> Do you ever test in anything besides Gentoo? Are you sure you don't have
> a fontconfig problem?

Dotan doesn't use Gentoo.  AFAIK (from a different thread) he uses 
kubuntu.

I'm a gentooer, as are Dale and Alex/Wonko, but not Dotan.

But it could indeed be a fontconfig issue of some sort.  That's why I 
asked about font type and aliasing and hinting, in my response.

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