Font width

[Waldo Bastian]

On Wednesday 19 February 2003 14:20, Peter Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > On Mit, 19 Feb 2003, Igor Gilitschenski wrote:
> > > Why does konqueror not use a fixed width font for the <pre> Tag.
> > > Several Webpages (like mine *g*) use <pre> for ASCII Art.
> >
> > Konqueror uses the font configured as "fixed font" in your konqueror
> > control module. If you configure a nonfixed font there, you get what you
> > deserve ;-)
>
> The default setting for this (Courier New) does not work on all
> distributions. I get the same problem on RedHat 7.2. I use "Fixed"
> instead.

The selection of fixed fonts with Qt/Xft seems to be screwed up royally. A lot 
of people complain about the fonts in konsole. Konsole requires fixed fonts 
by design and when it gets fed proportional fonts it ends up in a mess :-(

See also e.g. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52538 

Cheers,
Waldo
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