AA fonts "too wide" in X11 terminal emulators
Hi,
I've recently upgraded my workstation from squeeze to wheezy,
pretty much everything went fine, except a really annoying
situation: from now on, all of the AntiAliased fonts I'll use in
a terminal emulator under X11 will be too large, just like if
letter spacing had increased with this upgrade.
I have reproduced that behaviour with xterm, gnome-terminal,
xfce4-terminal and urxvt. For the latter, the following resource:
URxvt.letterSpace: -1
fixes terminal width to a correct ratio, I just can't find any
equivalent of this for all of the others terminal emulators.
I already tried playing with my DPI settings, globally and by
term, either the fonts are too wide or ridiculously small. Also
tried various ~/.fonts.conf techniques, "minspace" seemed to be
a good candidate, but that changed nothing.
Only one font seem to be ok though: "Incosolata" have the good
size and term ratio is looking good.
There are similar debian bug reports like this one:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/10/msg00877.html
but they are pretty old and related to a libfreetype 2.4.6 bug
whereas I'm using 2.4.9-1.
Does it ring a bell to someone?
Regards,
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