Urxvt fonts

BC · 2008-03-02 07:27:19

For some reason, font spacing (between characters) in urxvt is too wide and I can't figure out why. Fonts look fine in xterm. Fonts are even drawn correctly in urxvt in other distros. Here's the font relevant parts of my .Xresources:

Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.hinting:    1
Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull
Xft.rgba:       rgb
xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono
xterm*faceSize: 10
URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono-10

I use the exact same Xresources and /etc/fonts/local.conf between distros (they're just symlinks), and I'm out of ideas. Can anyone help?

eerok · 2008-03-02 14:32:06

This doesn't answer all your questions, but the easy solution is to replace all that with something like

URxvt.font: -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

This is really a far nicer font, and there's an Arch package for it.

Anyway, I also couldn't get the spacing quite right on Xft fonts, but you'd get better results with a finer tuned specification

URxvt.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=12

I finally abandoned URxvt because it doesn't support 256 colors. If you get too frustrated with URxvt, try Sakura or another light alternative.

Last edited by eerok (2008-03-02 14:32:43)

BC · 2008-03-02 16:31:38

eerok wrote:

Anyway, I also couldn't get the spacing quite right on Xft fonts, but you'd get better results with a finer tuned specification
URxvt.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=12

That didn't fix it, thanks though

shining · 2008-03-02 17:25:00

To get the same result as :
xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono
xterm*faceSize: 10

I can use :
urxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10

And btw, that works here too :
xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10

Last edited by shining (2008-03-02 17:25:18)

BC · 2008-03-02 17:44:22

Thanks for the reply shining. I tried that too, but with no success.

leo2501 · 2008-03-12 03:05:18

i like the default urxvt font, but like to make it a little bigger

rhys_rhaven · 2008-04-06 06:09:05

Reboot the system after installing urxvt. Something to do with fonts linked right.
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I am having the exact same trouble, with spacing being huge.

From the rxvt change log http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Changes

7.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.

Why would this still happen?

Last edited by rhys_rhaven (2008-04-06 08:46:53)

Evanlec · 2008-07-04 11:44:42

Im still seeing this in urxvt (also xft's seem to render very slowly ), has anyone made any progress on this?

daf666 · 2008-07-04 12:42:08

Try my settings: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 37#p383637

Evanlec · 2008-07-04 13:24:24

lovely except that font makes me want to cry

dmz · 2008-10-06 03:41:33

You really should try out Terminus. Once you do, you'll never use any other font in your terminals.

thayer · 2008-10-06 04:04:29

dmz wrote:

You really should try out Terminus. Once you do, you'll never use any other font in your terminals.

I said the same thing until I discovered dina (pacman -S dina-font). Like terminus, it's highly legible, but also offers slightly larger font sizes.

dmz · 2008-10-06 04:29:47

thayer wrote:

dmz wrote:
You really should try out Terminus. Once you do, you'll never use any other font in your terminals.
I said the same thing until I discovered dina (pacman -S dina-font). Like terminus, it's highly legible, but also offers slightly larger font sizes.

Larger? I want smaller fonts. Any idea?

Ashren · 2008-10-06 04:47:34

dmz > Monte carlo might be for you. A very nice terminal font.

http://bok.net/MonteCarlo/

dmz · 2008-10-06 04:49:50

Ashren wrote:

dmz > Monte carlo might be for you. A very nice terminal font.
http://bok.net/MonteCarlo/

Thanks a lot, gonna try it out rightaway.

Edit: That sucked.

Last edited by dmz (2008-10-06 04:56:20)

Ashren · 2008-10-06 04:59:24

Why?

dmz · 2008-10-06 05:03:56

http://hostopen.net/ubr_upload/2008-10- … _scrot.png <-- that's why.

Ashren · 2008-10-06 05:14:24

I guess it is a matter of taste then. It has small fonts (like you asked for) it is also highly legible. I prefer Dina, but used to be very fond of Monte Carlo. Or is the right terminal window you're referring to?

dmz · 2008-10-06 11:43:19

Ashren wrote:

I guess it is a matter of taste then. It has small fonts (like you asked for) it is also highly legible. I prefer Dina, but used to be very fond of Monte Carlo. Or is the right terminal window you're referring to?

Yeah, the left is standard Terminus, and the right is Monte Carlo.

Ashren · 2008-10-06 12:30:37

ahh.. I see.. hehe. You should use the pcf font and load it with:

URxvt*font:    -*-montecarlo-medium-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
URxvt*boldFont: -*-montecarlo-bold-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

dmz · 2008-10-06 12:38:37

Ashren wrote:

ahh.. I see.. hehe. You should use the pcf font and load it with:
URxvt*font:    -*-montecarlo-medium-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
URxvt*boldFont: -*-montecarlo-bold-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Hm.. those strings makes urxvt sad penguin:

 > xrdb -load .Xresources 
 > urxvt
urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using -fn, aborting.

Ashren · 2008-10-06 12:44:21

You'd ofcourse have to add the fonts properly. Put the unpacked fonts in ~/.fonts. Run mkfontdir && mkfontscale && fc-cache. Add /home/dmz/.fonts to xorg.conf's font path. Restart X and voila'.

dmz · 2008-10-06 12:53:49

Ashren wrote:

You'd ofcourse have to add the fonts properly. Put the unpacked fonts in ~/.fonts. Run mkfontdir && mkfontscale && fc-cache. Add /home/dmz/.fonts to xorg.conf's font path. Restart X and voila'.

What? I extracted the fonts to /usr/share/fonts and ran fc-cache -f , isn't that a proper way?

Square · 2008-10-06 19:30:00

Font suggestion: Proggy Clean
It renders correctly in urxvt, and I can't seem to find anything better.

Last edited by Square (2008-10-06 19:32:49)

print · 2009-01-09 00:45:17

Monaco FTW!

Last edited by print (2012-04-01 21:17:34)

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Urxvt fonts

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