Package: xterm Version: 249-1 Severity: normal My use case is to align the xterm font display with the default font used by GNOME. As an example the Gedit program uses Monospace 10 as the system fixed width font. I believe Monospace is mapped to DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book. The default size is 10pt. I set XTerm*faceName to Monospace and XTerm*faceSize to 10. See the output for xrdb -query below for full resource settings. With these resources assigned xterm does use the same font as Gedit. "[Font] tracking increases the space between characters evenly, regardless of the characters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning)." The xterm output has much wider tracking than the Gedit (and other GNOME applications such as gnome-terminal) output.
To reproduce this bug set the XTerm resources as listed below and then type: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Compare the width of the sentence in xterm versus gnome-terminal or gedit. Xterm will be longer. GNOME applications produce nicer output, therefore I have filed this as a bug in xterm. $ xrdb -query XTerm*faceName: Monospace XTerm*faceSize: 10 Xcursor.size: 18 Xcursor.theme: default Xcursor.theme_core: true Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi: 97 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.rgba: rgb $ fc-list | grep 'DejaVu Sans Mono' DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Oblique DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libutempter0 1.1.5-2 A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxft2 2.1.13-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xbitmaps 1.0.1-2 Base X bitmaps Versions of packages xterm recommends: ii x11-utils 7.4+1 X11 utilities ii xutils 1:7.4+4 X Window System utility programs m Versions of packages xterm suggests: pn xfonts-cyrillic <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
