Bug#549953: xterm: Font tracking over wide.

[Don Pellegrino <don@drexel.edu>]

Package: xterm
Version: 249-1
Severity: normal

My use case is to align the xterm font display with the default font
used by GNOME.  As an example the Gedit program uses Monospace 10 as the
system fixed width font.  I believe Monospace is mapped to DejaVu Sans 
Mono:style=Book.  The default size is 10pt.  I set XTerm*faceName to 
Monospace and XTerm*faceSize to 10.  See the output for xrdb -query 
below for full resource settings.  With these resources assigned xterm 
does use the same font as Gedit.  "[Font] tracking increases the space 
between characters evenly, regardless of the characters 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning)."  The xterm output has much 
wider tracking than the Gedit (and other GNOME applications such as 
gnome-terminal) output.

To reproduce this bug set the XTerm resources as listed below and then
type:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Compare the width of the sentence in xterm versus gnome-terminal or 
gedit.  Xterm will be longer.  GNOME applications produce nicer output, 
therefore I have filed this as a bug in xterm.

$ xrdb -query
XTerm*faceName:	Monospace
XTerm*faceSize:	10
Xcursor.size:	18
Xcursor.theme:	default
Xcursor.theme_core:	true
Xft.antialias:	1
Xft.dpi:	97
Xft.hinting:	1
Xft.hintstyle:	hintfull
Xft.rgba:	rgb

$ fc-list | grep 'DejaVu Sans Mono'
DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique
DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Oblique
DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book
DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.9-27         GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii  libfontconfig1            2.6.0-4        generic font configuration
library
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.5-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange
library
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for
terminal hand
ii  libutempter0              1.1.5-2        A privileged helper for
utmp/wtmp 
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.2.2-1      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   2:1.0.6-1      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxft2                   2.1.13-3       FreeType-based font drawing
librar
ii  libxmu6                   2:1.0.4-2      X11 miscellaneous utility
library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.6-1      X11 toolkit intrinsics
library
ii  xbitmaps                  1.0.1-2        Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  x11-utils                     7.4+1      X11 utilities
ii  xutils                        1:7.4+4    X Window System utility
programs m

Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn  xfonts-cyrillic               <none>     (no description available)

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