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regarding exmh: Bad font selection: Fonts much too big/wide
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Package: exmh
Version: 1:2.7.2-13
Severity: important
Since a recent routine update of the packages, exmh uses extremely
wide and big fonts for labeling buttons, for the list of headers,
and for the mail text itself, rendering the tool effectively unusable.
I guess that this problem is not entirely a problem of exmh, but
maybe lies in the interaction with X. However, I observed this
phenomenon exclusively with exmh; everything else is still fine.
And my attempts to change the fonts from within exmh were also
futile.
Local configuration files are not the culprit: the problem
persists with a test user having no dot-files in the home directory.
On Debian Etch with exmh 2.7.2-9 (same exmh, different package version)
there is no such problem.
Gernot
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages exmh depends on:
ii mime-support 3.40-1.1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii nmh [mh] 1.2-3 A set of electronic mail handling
ii tcl8.4 [tclsh] 8.4.18-2 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii tcl8.5 [tclsh] 8.5.1-1 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii tk8.4 [wish] 8.4.18-1 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
ii tk8.5 [wish] 8.5.1-2 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.5 -
ii xterm 234-1 X terminal emulator
exmh recommends no packages.
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:58:46 +0200, Gernot Salzer writes:
>Since a recent routine update of the packages, exmh uses extremely
>wide and big fonts for labeling buttons, for the list of headers,
>and for the mail text itself, rendering the tool effectively unusable.
>ii tk8.5 [wish] 8.5.1-2 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.5
i've just tested exmh with the newest version of tk8.5, now at 8.5.2-1,
and i cannot confirm any font problems. true, the default font is a bit
big but the fontselection dialog and anything else works fine.
this was a pristine exmh install in a chroot, so i conclude that
* gernot's font problem either came from a testing-specific interaction
between packages, most likely fontconfig, or
* the experimental patch that got removed in 8.5.2 has fixed
the problem.
either way, a clean sid setup works and i'm closing the bug report.
here are the relevant tk8.5 changelog entries:
tk8.5 (8.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
* Removed a font patch because its lighter version was included into
upstream distribution.
* Quoted CFLAGS in debian/rules when passing to the shell, not when
assigning to a make variable; otherwise the quotes end up as part of
the variable and many things go wrong, leading to a build failure.
* Explicitly specified configure options --host and --build to make build
results more predictable.
-- Sergei Golovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:51:47 +0400
tk8.5 (8.5.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Added an experimental patch which makes choosing a font for a given
character more reliable even in case of incorrect fontconfig setup
(closes: #465462).
-- Sergei Golovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:56:37 +0300
regards
az
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