Thanks for the quick response and clarification guys. Sorry I didn't realize that the issue is coming from Xft. It does look like the TrueType Specification includes a tracking table for the font [http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6.html and http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6trak.html].
Assuming DejaVu Sans Mono defines the Tracking Table then proper rendering should respect the values in the table. If Xft does use the tracking table but it is not defined for this font then this might need to be a feature request for the DejaVu fonts rather than for Xft. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org