Bug 7440

Summary: characters overlapps in monospace font afetr font change before X restart
Product: fontconfig Reporter: drago01
Component: libraryAssignee: Keith Packard <keithp>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: 2.3   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: screenshots showing the bug
screenshot 2
fonts after X restart

Description drago01 2006-07-06 08:51:34 UTC
I have tested the dehavu fonts on my sys (FC5) but the fonts in the terminal
monospace are 'broken' : the chars overlapps sometimes see attachment
Comment 1 drago01 2006-07-06 08:52:13 UTC
Created attachment 6139 [details]
screenshots showing the bug
Comment 2 Ben Laenen 2006-07-06 09:00:02 UTC
That screenshot doesn't look like DejaVu Mono: the shape of the "l" is wrong 
(should have serif on top and curve at bottom) and "0" should have a dot in it
Comment 3 drago01 2006-07-06 09:07:33 UTC
then something weird is going on I selected dejaVu-mono instead of monospace in
the gnome-font dialog after installing dejavu-fonts and
dejavu-fonts-experimental from fedora extras.
Comment 4 drago01 2006-07-06 09:10:25 UTC
Created attachment 6140 [details]
screenshot 2
Comment 5 Simos Xenitellis 2006-07-06 09:43:10 UTC
The monospace font in the font settings should be "Monospace".

"Monospace" is a virtual font (similar to "Sans" and "Serif").
Did you change yourself to DejaVu Sans Mono Book?
This should not make a big change, it's good to know anyway.

Also, what is the settings in GNOME Terminal, Edit/Current Profile/Font?
Comment 6 drago01 2006-07-06 09:53:50 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> The monospace font in the font settings should be "Monospace".
> 
> "Monospace" is a virtual font (similar to "Sans" and "Serif").
> Did you change yourself to DejaVu Sans Mono Book?
> This should not make a big change, it's good to know anyway.
> 
yes; else it uses the FC5 default font
> Also, what is the settings in GNOME Terminal, Edit/Current Profile/Font?
there is no font tab
Comment 7 drago01 2006-07-06 09:59:42 UTC
Created attachment 6143 [details]
fonts after X restart

it seems to work fine after restarting X
Comment 8 Simos Xenitellis 2006-07-06 10:06:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> Created an attachment (id=6143) [edit]
> fonts after X restart
> 
> it seems to work fine after restarting X

There are some cases that when you try several fonts in the Font Preferences,
fontconfig/GTK+ (?) gets confused regarding the spacing of the glyphs. This
could also be a related issue.

Could you please post to the fedora mailing list that all are now ok? :)
Comment 9 drago01 2006-07-06 10:22:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > Created an attachment (id=6143) [edit] [edit]
> > fonts after X restart
> > 
> > it seems to work fine after restarting X
> 
> There are some cases that when you try several fonts in the Font Preferences,
> fontconfig/GTK+ (?) gets confused regarding the spacing of the glyphs. This
> could also be a related issue.
> 
> Could you please post to the fedora mailing list that all are now ok? :)
> 
done ;)
Comment 10 Simos Xenitellis 2006-07-06 11:16:38 UTC
Thanks!

I am closing the bug report as NOT OUR BUG (minor generic font-switching bug in
fontconfig/pango).
Comment 11 Nicolas Mailhot 2006-07-15 07:32:49 UTC
reopen
Comment 12 Nicolas Mailhot 2006-07-15 07:34:39 UTC
Simos, do people and favor and reassign bugs to other projects when you find out
they're not in the fonts
Comment 13 Keith Packard 2006-09-17 14:48:09 UTC
alas, bugzilla doesn't have a mechanism to forward bugs from one bugzilla to
another. Please create a bug for pango and point it at this bug URL.

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