Bug#219550: redraw problems with Xft
Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0-0pre1v4
Severity: normal
With certain fonts and font sizes in Xft mode, xterm draws characters so
that they partially lie in the character cell below; these characters
are subsequently not erased properly, leading to an unsightly display.
This is particularly noticeable with the "_" character in Andale Mono at
large sizes.
This is fixed in the latest upstream xterm; looking at the upstream
changelog I believe the relevant change is patch #180:
make height of TrueType fonts match ascent+descent (patch by
Keith Packard).
That upstream version also makes underlining work with Xft rendering,
which would be nice to have too.
Cheers,
Cameron.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux erdos 2.4.21-cjp-erdos-3 #1 Sun Aug 24 01:18:50 WST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexpat1 1.95.6-6 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.1-8 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.5-3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libxaw7 4.2.1-13 X Athena widget set library
ii libxft2 2.1.2-4 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-4 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xlibs [libxpm4] 4.3.0-0pre1v4 X Window System client libraries
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