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nblock

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underscore is not displayed in terminal

Hi,
The underscore is only displayed when i use a pixelsize != 14 for Bitstream Vera Sans Mono in my .Xdefaults.
This is the relevant section:

!--[Fonts]--!
URxvt*font:            xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=14:antialias=false
URxvt*italicFont:      xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true:antialias=false
URxvt*boldFont:        xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:autohint=true:antialias=false
URxvt*boldItalicFont:  xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true:antialias=false

When i change the pixelsize to, say 15, the underscore is displayed again.

Does anyone know the reason for this behaviour and how to fix this without changing the font size?

thx!

daedalus

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From: Mountain View

Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

The exact same thing is happening to me using DejaVu Sans Mono, size 14.

Anyone know of a fix?

quabug

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Registered: 2011-12-04

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

+1 about this issue

URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=14

jinleileiking

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Registered: 2011-05-28

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

I have this in gvim using  dejavu mono = 10.5

env: xfce4 + arch + gvim

Last edited by jinleileiking (2011-12-08 06:46:59)

jinleileiking

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

Any solution ????

bernarcher

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

I fear there is no simple solution. I experienced this in several applications since years, too, forcing me to use a pixelsize of 11. Maybe some kind of roundoff error?

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jinleileiking

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Registered: 2011-05-28

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

I fear there is no simple solution. I experienced this in several applications since years, too, forcing me to use a pixelsize of 11. Maybe some kind of roundoff error?

Are you the same ??

gvim + dejavu 10.5 ??

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

Same problem here with xft:Dejavu Sans Mono:pixelsize=14:antialias=true.

It seems other pixelsizes work, or 14 will work with antialias=false, but that's ugly.

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f4hy

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Registered: 2009-02-08

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

Same problem here. But I did not always have this issue. I don't remember when exactly, I wish I did so I could figure out what package update messed it up.

Trilby

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

f4hy, there was a recent update of the ms-fonts aur package.  Perhaps your chosen font was upgraded.

I've been able to happily avoid this problem by choosing another font.  In my case I switched to Inconsolata (I believe it may have been made by an archer here), and it looks great.

Edit: xterm and urxvt were also just updated, so I guess that doesn't help narrow it down.

Last edited by Trilby (2012-01-22 23:18:14)

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GordonGR

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

I have it with Ubuntu mono 9 as well. It's not very annoying, though, it's usually obvious when the underscore is lacking.

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caolan

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

I have this problem with DejaVu Sans Mono in urxvt with pixelsize=14, I can fix it by changing the hintstyle in .fonts.conf to "hintfull" instead of "hintslight". Only "hintfull" works, "hintmedium" does not. Unfortunately I really don't like the look of the fonts with hintfull, preferring the softer, bolder look of hintslight.

Edit: I switched to Menlo in the end, it's similar to DejaVu Sans Mono but doesn't seem to have any problem displaying underscores with hintslight.

Last edited by caolan (2012-02-24 20:36:01)

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foudfou

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Registered: 2011-08-25

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

maybe related to https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27500

matrs

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Registered: 2013-05-14

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

Just here to say that  one week ago i started noticing this problem, so it is still present.

larryniven

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Registered: 2011-04-30

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

Sorry to necro bump the thread. I just notice the problem after upgrading to gnome 3.20.

Setting

URxvt.lineSpace: 1

in .Xresources (or use xrdb) solves the problem for me.

R00KIE

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Re: underscore is not displayed in terminal

Thank you for sharing your solution. However you know you shouldn't necro bump.

Closing.

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