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tugoese

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[SOLVED] UI: Terminal weird effects

I have another problem. I'm not sure if it's a bug or something on my side, but my terminal looks strange after the recent update. Have a look at this

And also the cursor shape here

Using LXQT w/ Openbox & Picom, QTerminal

Last edited by tugoese (2025-01-10 04:10:47)

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Re: [SOLVED] UI: Terminal weird effects

Mod note: not a pacman issue, moving to NC.

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] UI: Terminal weird effects

You're using a variable width font, which generally does not properly work w/ column oriented terminals.
(You'll either maintain a fixed width and get stretched out text with weird spacing or variable width text that breaks the column layout of the termina)

=> use some monospace font.

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tugoese

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Re: [SOLVED] UI: Terminal weird effects

use some monospace font.

Already did it & still not working

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] UI: Terminal weird effects

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Link an updated screenshot, but if it looks similar, you're not using a monospace font.
https://github.com/lxqt/qterminal/issues/1139 - not sure whether there's a legit bug.
Also

fc-match monospace

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tugoese

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Re: [SOLVED] UI: Terminal weird effects

Sorry, here's for the terminal & here's the main font

https://github.com/lxqt/qterminal/issues/1139 - not sure whether there's a legit bug.

This's exactly what happen to me

$ fc-match monospace
NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] UI: Terminal weird effects

NonoSans-Regular is *not* a monospace font.

fc-list :mono
fc-conflist

https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&r … ra&q=-nerd

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tugoese

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Re: [SOLVED] UI: Terminal weird effects

I know that, I couldn't change because it always revert back into previous font

fc-list :mono
fc-conflist

What am I supposed to do with this?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] UI: Terminal weird effects

You could look at it, figure what monospace fonts you have installed at all and then check your fontconfig files whether you maybe added a bogus one.
This has absolutely nothing to do w/ qterminal.

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