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Painless

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Registered: 2006-02-06

Posts: 234

Re: recent libx* upgrade issues

A bug report has been submitted: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47178

ReinisFMF

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Registered: 2012-03-10

Posts: 3

Re: recent libx* upgrade issues

Turns out this is not a new problem. Here is the patched version of urxvt without the font width issue:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44649

jakob

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-10-27

Posts: 419

Re: recent libx* upgrade issues

urxvt.font:   xft:Inconsolata:size=15:antialias=true:hinting=true

today's update to ttf-inconsolata fixed my problem.

Sorry to bring that old one up, but when sorting out old pkgs today I found I still hat libxft in Ignore. I changed this but encountered the same old problem with Bitstream Vera Sans so I changed to Inconsolata but have the feeling the letters are a bit too wide apart from each other. When using rxvt-unicode-patched, I don't encounter this behaviour.
Looks like this:

I have the following line in .Xresources:

URxvt*font:             xft:Inconsolata:pixelsize=15:antialias=true

Is there any option that I could use to avoid this or should I rather avoid unpatched urxvt?

Best,

Jakob

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: recent libx* upgrade issues

You can use

 URxvt.letterSpace: -1

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jakob

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-10-27

Posts: 419

Re: recent libx* upgrade issues

You can use

 URxvt.letterSpace: -1

I prefer that a lot over using patched urxvt. Thanks!