After using urxvt for about five months, there is only one function that it doesn't perform well: font support.
Sort of ironic, given the purpose of urxvt. Is anyone else at the point of being ready to wrestle the font-support problem into a comprehensive solution? All I've heard so far are basically explanations for why the fonts are wrong, and why urxvt needs to stay logically perfect rather than display fonts correctly. "No, the fonts are displaying correctly. It is the font that is incorrect!" Well, some fonts still don't look right, and I've seen several message threads here about this issue. How about fixing urxvt so that it becomes compatible with fonts that are "larger than their bounding boxes", so that letter spacing is consistent and so that glyphs render as expected, "correct" or not? Considering that KDE and Gnome can do these tasks, they probably don't require "artificial intelligence" to solve. Aside from that (and a couple of minor glitches), urxvt is almost great. ____________________________________________________________ Can't remember your password? Do you need a strong and secure password? Use Password manager! It stores your passwords & protects your account. Check it out at http://mysecurelogon.com/password-manager _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
