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depesz

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Registered: 2009-11-11

Posts: 6

Kde konsole messes fonts - gnome-terminal looks ok. Reason?

I have strange situation - after some upgrade couple of days ago fonts in KDE konsole broke. To make it more specific - standard fonts look more or less ok, but when I use my national characters (like ąćęłńśóźż) they all look broken - like from another font, or badly scaled.

The same problem doesn't exist in gnome-terminal.

I usually use Terminus font, so I used this for demonstration, but it shows in other fonts as well - if that will be necessary I will provide list.

Konsole shot:

gnome-terminal shot:

As for my settings:

=$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Builtin Default intel Device 0"
    Driver  "intel"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName      "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Builtin Default intel Screen 0"
    Device  "Builtin Default intel Device 0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "touchpad"
    Driver  "synaptics"
    Option "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Builtin Default Layout"
    Screen  "Builtin Default intel Screen 0"
    InputDevice "touchpad"
EndSection

=$ xdpyinfo | grep -E resolution\|dimensions
  dimensions:    1680x1050 pixels (444x277 millimeters)
  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch

I tried forcing DPI in system settings (to 120), or adding monitor size to xorg.conf - so far nothing helped.

Any idea on what should I do to make it work sanely again?

akordianowski

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Registered: 2009-12-12

Posts: 1

Re: Kde konsole messes fonts - gnome-terminal looks ok. Reason?

I've got the same problem. It looks like KDE does not read all characters for Terminus font, or reads in only one encoding. If you go to System settings -> Font installer, you see that terminus has very few characters there, and does not have special national characters.
However, I've no idea how this can be solved. I'd guess it's some bug in KDE, but on the other hand downgrading KDE to previous version does not help at all.

Any ideas?

quarkup

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 497

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Re: Kde konsole messes fonts - gnome-terminal looks ok. Reason?

put them with the same text color and background color.

I think its necause of the colors, because black to green and white to green appear to have different contrasts..

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depesz

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Registered: 2009-11-11

Posts: 6

Re: Kde konsole messes fonts - gnome-terminal looks ok. Reason?

@quarkup
color doesn't matter. look at letter ł - in konsole it has clearly wrong width.