[SOLVED] Odd font spacing in gnome-terminal
Hi guys, i'm new to Arch and i'm loving it: everything is working flawlessly apart from monospaced fonts that look more spaced than what i'm used to (Ubuntu), here is what i'm talking about:
I tried -lcd and -ubuntu packages, changed hintstyle to both full/medium/slight but all to no avail, do you have any ideas?
Here is my configuration, that i'm using in Ubuntu and Arch right now:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
<edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
Thank you in advance!
<edit>
Some clarifications: the configuration does get applied, so it's not due to misplaced configuration files, the font tracking just doesn't look right.
The depicted font in the screenshots is Menlo, but any other monospaced font, such as the Droid Mono, will look wrongly spaced.
</edit>
Last edited by bmanuel (2011-11-06 11:12:45)
Oh well, it seems i got it: it seems that just selecting a size of 7.5 instead of 8 get exactly the same spacing as if using a size of 8 in Ubuntu, this without installing any -ubuntu/-lcd/-cleartype patches, only vanilla arch packages.
The dumb gnome-3 new font selector will *not* permit selecting intermediate sizes and won't let you enter "7.5", so fire up gconf-editor and just change the value for apps.gnome-terminal.profiles.Default to be, as in my case, "Menlo 7.5".
Finally, sensible spacing in my terminals!
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