Bug#549953: xterm: Font tracking over wide.
Sebastian Krause <sebastian@realpath.org> wrote:
> Don Pellegrino <don@drexel.edu> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I can confirm this bug. The font in xterm (up to 248) used to be the
> same as in other programs, e.g. gedit or Emacs. But with xterm 249
> the font spacing is much wider.
It seems that the bug has been fixed in xterm 250. At least I can
not reproduce it anymore.
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