[Konsole-devel] [Bug 221609] konsole default font causes wrong formatting and slow open

[urcindalo at gmail.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221609


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--- Comment #7 from  <urcindalo gmail com>  2010-03-16 10:04:11 ---
I asked the question below in the Gentoo forums, but now I see this a better
place in my humble opinion :)

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I recently changed my 17" CRT monitor to an "old and square" 19" LCD.

At 96 dpi terminus-font-4.30 looks as glorious as ever in my new monitor. But
the *real* dpi of my 1280x1024 resolution are 86, so I'm setting 86 dpi through
a bash script in my ~/.kde4/env/ folder:

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$ cat ~/.kde4/env/dpi.sh
#!/bin/bash
xrandr --dpi 86
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since for some reason the nouveau driver for my old Nvidia GeForce 5200 FX
card, or xorg-server, or whichever, insists of seeing my screen dimensions
smaller than they actually are, incorrectly setting the dpi to 96.

The thing is when I start up KDE with an 86 dpi setting, all fonts look OK
except terminus-font from portage. I use it as my Konsole default font. It just
looks horribly and even misplaces characters in the screen, almost overlapping
some of them.

As a workaround I've downloaded the current TTF versions of the terminus font
from a webpage, so un-emerging terminus-font and installing these TTF variants
by hand solves the problem for me. But I'm just curious as to why terminus-font
renders so badly at 86 dpi.
Other mono fonts look OK.

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