I use 6x10 as my normal xterm font, and a change made late last year (in xterm patch #150) causes some annoying behavior. It appears as though some font is being scaled and passes the new same_font_size test that did not pass the old one. Bold text rendered using this font is ugly and sometimes unrecognizable (compare http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cg2v/unreleased/xterm/bad2.png with http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cg2v/unreleased/xterm/good2.png, which corresponds to the older same_font_size behavior, where xterm did overstriking for this font)
Apart from the fact that I don't like how it looks, there seems to be an actual bug related to this. If, when xterm is using this font combination, an application displays a bold, reverse video character, and later overwrites it with a non-bold character, a horizontal line is left on the screen. (compare http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cg2v/unreleased/xterm/lines.png with http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cg2v/unreleased/xterm/nolines.png. 'nolines' was generated by having the application erase and redraw the display) Since I doubt that same_font_size will be reverted, does anyone have any suggestions for me, other than switching to a larger font? _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
