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Marcel-

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From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

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[SOLVED] Terminus font in urxvt smaller after update

After upgrading terminus-font to 4.38-5 I noticed that coloured text in my urxvt terminals is smaller than before. For example, this is what my terminal looks like with 4.38-4:

and this is the 'after upgrade' shot:

As far as I can see the only significant change between the versions is the symlinking to 75-yes-terminus.conf in conf.d. However, I already made that symlink manually before the update. Removing the file after upgrading didn't solve the issue.

How can I get my normal fonts back?

Last edited by Marcel- (2014-05-01 11:47:41)

codemac

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Re: [SOLVED] Terminus font in urxvt smaller after update

Have you checked if your ls output is outputting bold text? Maybe the way bold fonts are handled has changed, or the hinting the font uses by default has changed.. You should try to just disable any bold fonts (by setting the "bold font" to the Terminus normal font) and see if that helps.

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Marcel-

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From: Utrecht, NL

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Re: [SOLVED] Terminus font in urxvt smaller after update

Apparently, it is: after changing the bold to the medium font in .Xdefaults:

*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1
*boldFont: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1

everything looks normal again.

But the smaller font doesn't look like a bold font to me...

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ondoho

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Re: [SOLVED] Terminus font in urxvt smaller after update

But the smaller font doesn't look like a bold font to me...

it's rather common in non-graphical environment to disable bold text by mapping the bold font to a normal font, or by using other attributes to emphasize text (like color).
historically i'd say it's because many bitmap fonts either don't have their own bold version or it looks extremely ugly.

Last edited by ondoho (2014-05-01 07:42:51)