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#1 2017-10-09 14:41:44

SupKurtJ
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[SOLVED] urxvt patched ? Why ?

Hi,

I found two versions of the urxvt terminal.

One is available in normal repositories, and the other in AUR which is named rxvt-unicode-patched.

Apparently the patched version correct the character and font spacing in the terminal.

But I do not understand the interest. There is a .Xresources file which allows to define the parameters of display, characters, fonts, sizes etc ... so I am perplexed on this version "patched".

If someone has more information about that, I would like to know the purpose of the "patched" version.

Thank you in advance.

Last edited by SupKurtJ (2017-10-11 07:56:06)

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#2 2017-10-09 14:47:06

Trilby
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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt patched ? Why ?

First, it's the AUR, people can submit whatever they want to the AUR.  There are many packages will far more trivial changes to essentially change default configurations.

Second, did you actually look at any of the patches?  The changes are not at all what you could achieve with Xresources settings.  For character spacing the patch author argues that the default is using the wrong metric from the font extents.  Simply adding or substracting a fixed about from the wrong metric will not make it the right metric.  The patch does not simply apply a constent delta to the wrong metric, it modifies the code to use a different font metric.


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#3 2017-10-09 14:47:06

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt patched ? Why ?

No idea, but there seems to be some backstory hinted at in the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rx … nt_spacing

Mod note: moving to AUR issues.


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#4 2017-10-11 07:55:44

SupKurtJ
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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt patched ? Why ?

Ok I understand now.
Thanks for the answers.

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