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Ant P.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:26 am    Post subject: libXft 2.3.0 broke my urxvt fonts, how do I get them back? Reply with quote

They now look like this (bottom), spaced out and hard to read. GVim above shows what it looks like with 2.2.0.

I had this exact same problem on an Ubuntu machine that I don't have access to now, and I fixed it there in fontconfig somehow, but I can't remember what I had to change. Anyone know?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I looked carefully - twice! - and all I can see is a nice, legible font. Did you perhaps post the wrong image?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

audiodef wrote:
I looked carefully - twice! - and all I can see is a nice, legible font. Did you perhaps post the wrong image?
I can see the problem - the bottom part of the image has all the letters spaced considerably further apart from eachother.

Having said that, I have no helpful idea how to fix this, other than downgrading the offending package.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aquous wrote:
I can see the problem - the bottom part of the image has all the letters spaced considerably further apart from each other.

Having said that, I have no helpful idea how to fix this, other than downgrading the offending package.

Yeah, I've masked >=2.3 for now until I figure it out. Here is a better image with libXft 2.2 on top and libXft 2.3 below, where the letter spacing resembles CJK fullwidth fonts and 15% of my horizontal space is going to waste.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, I see the spacing now. That would be annoying.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Which font are you using?

I'm using terminus fonts with x11-libs/libXft-2.3.0-r1 and x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.15, and I don't see any spacing issues.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dont Panic wrote:
Which font are you using?

Code:
URxvt.font:         xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=12

Terminus bypasses xft entirely since it's a bitmap font.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Meh, with terminus, I now can't start another urxvt, always giving
Code:
urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using -fn, aborting
Good thing my urxvtd session is still running :(

Edit, my .Xressources on fonts
Code:
.Xressources:urxvt*font:   xft:terminus:size=10
.Xressources:URxvt*keysym.C-plus:   command:\033]710;xft:terminus:size=18\007
.Xressources:URxvt*keysym.C-minus:   command:\033]710;xft:terminus:size=12\007
.Xressources:FvwmConsole*font:   xft:terminus:size=10
.Xressources:FvwmConsole*keysym.C-plus:   command:\033]710;xft:terminus:size=18\007
.Xressources:FvwmConsole*keysym.C-minus:   command:\033]710;xft:terminus:size=12\007
.Xressources:dmenu.font: xft:terminus:size=10

.Xdefaults are the same, symlinked.

Used to just work(tm).

Edit, meh, solved. According to the changelog, I missed the switch from USE=truetype to USE=xft, thus I didn't have it.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just a couple of bugs in libXft to be fixed in the 2.3.1 release (as no one tested any affected applications with broken commits made months previously).

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47178
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47196
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