Re: w e i r d f o n t b e h a v i o r in multi-gnome-terminal
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:12:15PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> I have some weird font behavior in multi-gnome-terminal (from testing).
> If i choose any other font than:
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 (if I use
> for example the M$-font arial) the text I type on the command line
> displays with a lot of space between characters, like this:
> a p t - g e t u p d a t e
> I hope somebody knows what's going on..
Certainly. You've told it to use a proportional font, when it can only use
a monospaced one. The odd character spacing you see is the terminal trying
to fit what the font claims are the character sizes into its view of the
world.
It's not a GTK-ism.
--
Marc Wilson
msw@cox.net
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