Bug#289468: strace shows strange font XFLD

[Malte Cornils <malte@cornils.net>]

Hello,

I'm experiencing Karsten's problem on all of my machines. This is indeed very 
ugly (though easily worked around). 

The font that is actually displayed in konsole is file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/12x13ja.pcf.gz!
I wrote a small test program, based on the konsole font selection code, 
without having much clue:

#include <qfont.h>
#include <qapplication.h>
#include <cstdio>

int main( int argc, char **argv ) {
        QApplication app(argc, argv, true);
        QFont f;
        f.setFamily("fixed");
        f.setFixedPitch(true);
        f.setStyleHint(QFont::TypeWriter);
        f.setPixelSize(13);
        QFontInfo fi(f);
        printf("fam: s, pxlSz: %d, ptSz: %d, italic: %d, weight: %d\n",
                        fi.pixelSize(), fi.pointSize(),
                        fi.italic(), fi.weight() );
        printf("bold: %d, fixedPitch: %d\n", fi.bold(), fi.fixedPitch() );
        printf("Qt Fontstring is: %s\n", f.toString().latin1() );
        printf("XLFD is: %s\n", f.rawName().latin1() );
        return 0;
}

Then, I straced this one and up came: 
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/12x13ja.pcf.gz", O_RDONLY) = 7

Which is something like
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-120-75-75-c-120-iso10646-1

(this avgWdth-120 variant is suited for Japanese display, 
while its avgWdth-70 or -80 variants would indeed make good default
konsole fonts)

I'm also not sure whether I grok everything in the 
void Konsole::setFont(int fontno); method (konsole.cpp, 3.3.1, line 1752).

Can anyone help? (probably an upstream problem?)

-Malte