On 2017-03-20 14:42 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 07:24:55PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> No, attached is a screenshot of "xterm -fa DejaVuSansMono -fs 14". > > I think you may be getting FreeMono.ttf instead of DejaVuSansMono.ttf.
I don't think so, the screenshot I included in <8760j3hklk....@turtle.gmx.de> very much looks like DejaVuSansMono to me. At least it's notably different from the screenshot in my first reply <87wpbjholo....@turtle.gmx.de>. >> > [1] On my Debian Stretch system installed freshly as of Friday, 17 March, >> > "matching" is a generous term. "xfd -fa X-14" also brings up DejaVu >> > Sans Mono-14. Frustratingly, "fc-list $pattern" as documented in the >> > fc-list(1) manpage seems to be useless, returning no matches no matter >> > what $pattern is. But that's a bug for a different package... >> >> Apparently fc-match gives better results than fc-list. On my system it >> revealed that FreeMono is best matched by FreeMono.ttf coming from the >> fonts-freefont-ttf package, followed by DejaVuSansMono.ttf. > > This could be the key. I _don't_ have fonts-freefont-ttf installed, and > fc-match tells me: > > $ fc-match FreeMono > DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book" > > Can you repro the problem if you temporarily uninstall fonts-freefont-ttf? Tried it, but saw no difference. Cheers, Sven