Bug#1001793: mate-terminal: Wrong context menu font when using libvte-2.91-0[-common] 0.66.1-1 or 0.66.2-1

[Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>]

Control: tags -1 patch

On  Do 13 Apr 2023 17:53:21 CEST, Faidon Liambotis wrote:

> Control: tags -1 upstream
> Control: forwarded -1  
> https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-terminal/issues/407
>
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 10:37:19AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:29:48PM +0100, Jasmin68k wrote:
> > > Using Debian sid, running apt-get upgrade, which installed
> > > libvte-2.91-0 and libvte-2.91-common 0.66.1-1.  After that, the
> > > context (right-click) menu font in mate-terminal became monospace,
> > > probably the same system wide monospace font, mate-terminal is using
> > > for terminal output, instead of the regular system wide application
> > > font.
> >
> > This seems like a pretty serious UX issue. It also seems this was
> > reported against Ubuntu, and fixed there with 1.26.0-1ubuntu2.
>
> To add to this:
>
> This seems to be upstream bug #407 fixed with upstream git commit
> 52fa45d4ca35e6be11ddee818eac84b768f15e22:
> https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-terminal/commit/52fa45d4ca35e6be11ddee818eac84b768f15e22
>
> This was reported against Ubuntu with LP #1955505, and fixed in
> 1.26.0-1ubuntu2, with a backport of the aforementioned patch:
> https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mate-terminal/commit/?id=a0d6e4951b3443ba849be12397cc02136e62b8d6
>
> The fix seems to be, thankfully, a trivial one-liner :)
>
> Faidon


Tagging with patch tag.

Thanks for this! Will do an upload soonish.
Mike
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