[SOLVED] Writting cursor out of place

tesladodger · 2018-09-26 22:12:14

The writing cursor is always a few spaces in front of where it actually writes:
First example

The output of archey3 is this, which I think is related:
Archey3 output
(Don't mind the resolution, I just wanted the image to be smaller)

I have no idea what's going on, since this happens on i3 and Xfce.
Thanks for the help, guys.

Last edited by tesladodger (2018-09-27 07:58:19)

seth · 2018-09-26 22:28:53

Choose a monospace font. VIrtually no terminal can handle proportional fonts (and they suck when displaying tables etc. - or the archey3 output ;-)

circleface · 2018-09-26 22:29:22

It looks to me like you aren't using a monospace font for the terminal. Make sure you have a monospace font installed and see if that fixes the issue.

tesladodger · 2018-09-26 22:46:10

circleface wrote:

It looks to me like you aren't using a monospace font for the terminal. Make sure you have a monospace font installed and see if that fixes the issue.

I'm using monospace regular

seth · 2018-09-26 22:47:18

The font in the screenshot does not have a fxed width.

fc-match monospace

tesladodger · 2018-09-26 22:53:06

seth wrote:

The font in the screenshot does not have a fxed width.
fc-match monospace

It outputs:
NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"

seth · 2018-09-26 22:57:16

Well, that's not a monospace font…

fc-list :spacing=mono

If this list is empty: install some monospace font.
If it's not, I predict you are or have at some point been using the deepin desktop…

tesladodger · 2018-09-26 23:10:47

I found this topic and the output now is:
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"

But it still shows the same formatting...

circleface · 2018-09-27 00:00:54

Did you configure the terminal to actually use the monospace font?

tesladodger · 2018-09-27 07:56:38

circleface wrote:

Did you configure the terminal to actually use the monospace font?

This time I did and after a reboot it worked. Still don't know what was happening
Thanks a lot for your replies

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#1 2018-09-26 22:12:14

[SOLVED] Writting cursor out of place

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