Can't select bitmap fonts in GTK+ apps

[theli]

Mostly care about Terminus in xfce4-terminal that I'm so used to.
I think it stopped working once I unmerged now deprecated infinality but I may be mistaken. I haven't updated freetype/pango lately either.

[psycho]

Have you tried the Terminus TrueType font?. I use it in my xfce4-terminal and am not aware of the difference between it and the original, though admittedly it's a long time since I've seen the original (which used to be my preference too). I use terminus-font on the consoles and then the TrueType version in my x11 terminals and (once you fiddle with the sizes a bit) it looks quite consistent.

[Ionen]

pango removed support for bitmap fonts since >=pango-1.44, it was masked until recently but it was making using newer gimp, gtk4, etc.. impossible so that went away.

There's been talk of making a news item about this (currently it's only in ~arch, stable has pango-1.42.4), but unsure on status.

Edit: I've also seen talk of possibly adding a USE for ebuilds to convert bitmap fonts (page even uses terminus as example), but don't hold your breath You can always convert yourself if need be.

[dbtx]

[Ionen]

[dbtx]

Of course. How quickly I forget. I'll probably test-drive OTF conversion at least but slowly break my VTE habits. I wonder if the missing font support can be added to Harfbuzz or if it's considered out-of-scope or what.

[dbtx]

I ended up dropping to pango-1.42.4-r2 again because things were wrong. The top half is classic a.k.a. correct:

(normal) https://i.ibb.co/b16Nggc/pango-kerning-regression.png

(zoomed) https://i.ibb.co/d6qNx9q/pango-kerning-regression-large.png

And if my problem is in fact this problem, it looks like things are not going to change very soon.

https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/2394

edit: I realized too late that this is wandering off-topic, so I'll start another one before I continue remarking upon the absurdity

[mike155]

Even the top half looks washed-out and terrible!