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#1 2021-01-10 18:34:27

wuxb
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Registered: 2012-09-13
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The recent VTE update breaks fonts in terminal

I'm using Tilix on Gnome Wayland. I have been using the Roboto Mono (medium) fonts in the terminal.
The recent update of the vte packages causes only the "regular" font style being used. I tried to change the style to "thin", "light", and "medium" but it always show the same regular font.
Didin't spend much time on this issue so that's all I have right now.

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#2 2021-01-11 16:01:53

utiac
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Registered: 2021-01-11
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Re: The recent VTE update breaks fonts in terminal

I have experienced the same result using guake and Xorg. I have two laptops that I keep relatively in sync - my daily driver which is most up to date with vte*-0.62.2-1 experiences the broken font selection. I can select my preferred font in guake preferences, but this font is not displayed. My other laptop (still on vte*--0.62.1-2) has no problem with guake using my preferred font, which happens to be FreeMono Bold Oblique.
Here is a link to terminal screenshots:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ … sp=sharing

Reverting to vte*--0.62.1-2 and a reboot on my daily driver allows guake terminal font selection to behave as expected.

Edit: corrected URL for actual discussion/potential solutions
This might be a gnome:vte bug as reported here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/323

If you revert to vte*--0.62.1-2 as I did, you can add this line to /etc/pacman.conf to temporarily disable vte* updates:
IgnorePkg   = vte3 vte-common

Of course this is not recommended without monitoring the impact, but hopefully 'fixed' vte* packages will be released by gnome devs and brought into Arch. It looks like that is the direction suggested by the gnome bug discussion.

Last edited by utiac (2021-01-14 14:59:37)

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#3 2021-03-12 19:01:17

utiac
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Re: The recent VTE update breaks fonts in terminal

The reported issue has been resolved (in my case) with the Arch release of vte3-0.62.3-1 and vte-common-0.62.3-1
Anyone who has excluded these packages from pacman updates should probably include them again.

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#4 2021-04-18 05:32:11

trinaldi
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Registered: 2015-06-02
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Re: The recent VTE update breaks fonts in terminal

Still having issues with:
vte3 && vte-common - 0.64.0-2

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#5 2021-04-19 13:17:57

utiac
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Registered: 2021-01-11
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Re: The recent VTE update breaks fonts in terminal

It seems the 64.0-2 branch has fixed the problem of displaying bold fonts, however italic and oblique fonts are still not honored. I'm hoping they will continue work on this, but no additional information has been posted at:  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/323

Last edited by utiac (2021-04-19 13:18:24)

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