| Summary: | konsole default font causes wrong formatting and slow open | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] konsole | Reporter: | damian pereira <damipereira> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Konsole Developer <konsole-devel> |
| Status: | RESOLVED REMIND | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | adaptee, Oliver, robertknight, urcindalo |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | screenshot of top with a font size of 11 | ||
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Description
damian pereira
2010-01-07 06:19:34 UTC
Created attachment 39636 [details]
screenshot of top with a font size of 11
Which distribution ships a variable-width font as default monospaced? Use a different font. I don't think this should be closed so brusquely. Damian reported using Terminus, a fixed-width (bitmap) font (which is probably not being mapped from "Monospace"; rather I would surmise Konsole was patched to ask for "Terminus" by default). As I read the description, Konsole is falling back to a variable-width font when it tries to use a size of Terminus that doesn't exist. (However, I can't reproduce that on my system; I'm getting the nearest match.) I'm not sure how you got from that that the distro is mapping a variable-width font to "Monospace". But even if you know something I don't, that's clearly an UPSTREAM problem, not INVALID (which is to say, if the problem really is the distro mapping something not-fixed-width to "Monospace", that's clearly a bug). > But even if you know something I don't, that's clearly an
> UPSTREAM problem, not INVALID
Distros are downstream.
> Distros are downstream.
Er... right :-). It would be UPSTREAM (I guess?) if Qt/fontconfig is doing something silly.
Damian, what exactly are you running? You talk about a "default font" Terminus but put 'compiled from source' as your KDE flavor. But I am pretty sure Terminus is not the default font in pristine. Since this doesn't seem to be a generic (i.e. "occurs for everyone") problem, it would help to know where your KDE, Qt, fontconfig, etc. is coming from.
Hi, sorry if it was my distribution default I thinked It was konsole default I'm using arch with kdemod http://chakra-project.org/ I choose unlisted binary when I filled the bug I don't know why it says that. I think terminus font is intended to be used at those and only those sizes so shouldn't konsole skip wrong sizes? I asked the question below in the Gentoo forums, but now I see this a better place in my humble opinion :) === 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: --- $ cat ~/.kde4/env/dpi.sh #!/bin/bash xrandr --dpi 86 --- 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. Can't reproduce it with KDE-4.7.0 Feel free to reopen if this still happens in recent version. |