It should be noted that Debian Wheezy, which uses the same 4.35-1 package for xfonts-terminus, does not suffer from this problem.
I compared Kubuntu Oneiric and Debian Wheezy side by side, and the same version of Terminus appeared with different font size availabilities in each one. Kubuntu: sizes 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 24 Debian: sizes 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 21, 24 I tested each of these font sizes on each distribution, and the only ones that displayed the buggy behavior were the sizes that were available *only* in Kubuntu. All of the Debian sizes display fine. Sizes 11, 14, and 17 display the bug in Kubuntu, but all of the other Kubuntu sizes display fine. If I had to guess what was happening here, it would be that the buggy sizes do not actually exist in this bitmap font. Something is trying to automatically scale up what *should* be sizes 10, 13, and 16 (as they appear in Debian) to sizes +1 from these, and since Terminus is a bitmap font designed *not* to be scaled, this scaling breaks the perfect monospacing. The same "wrong" font sizes appear no matter the KDE program trying to use the font: Konsole, Kate, KDE System Settings, etc. Interestingly, I tried installing Gedit and GNOME Terminal to test with GTK, and while these programs let you choose any size of Terminus that you want, they had little "suggestion" marks under the *proper* sizes, i.e. the sizes as listed in Debian. Does this indicate that the problem is more to do with KDE's font rendering for bitmap fonts than with Terminus itself? Debian Wheezy currently runs KDE 4.6.5, while Kubuntu runs KDE 4.7.4, so there is an inequality in the comparison there. I would test with another monospaced bitmap font, but I do not know of any others in the Ubuntu & Debian repositories off the top of my head. Suggestions? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/812134 Title: Konsole + Terminus font, wrong line alignment (Update to terminus 4.36) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/konsole/+bug/812134/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
