Bug#858142: xterm: ASCII underscore does not render when using -fa FreeMono -fs 14
On 2017-03-20 14:42 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 07:24:55PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> No, attached is a screenshot of "xterm -fa DejaVuSansMono -fs 14".
>
> I think you may be getting FreeMono.ttf instead of DejaVuSansMono.ttf.
I don't think so, the screenshot I included in
<[🔎] 8760j3hklk.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> very much looks like DejaVuSansMono to
me. At least it's notably different from the screenshot in my first
reply <[🔎] 87wpbjholo.fsf@turtle.gmx.de>.
>> > [1] On my Debian Stretch system installed freshly as of Friday, 17 March,
>> > "matching" is a generous term. "xfd -fa X-14" also brings up DejaVu
>> > Sans Mono-14. Frustratingly, "fc-list $pattern" as documented in the
>> > fc-list(1) manpage seems to be useless, returning no matches no matter
>> > what $pattern is. But that's a bug for a different package...
>>
>> Apparently fc-match gives better results than fc-list. On my system it
>> revealed that FreeMono is best matched by FreeMono.ttf coming from the
>> fonts-freefont-ttf package, followed by DejaVuSansMono.ttf.
>
> This could be the key. I _don't_ have fonts-freefont-ttf installed, and
> fc-match tells me:
>
> $ fc-match FreeMono
> DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
>
> Can you repro the problem if you temporarily uninstall fonts-freefont-ttf?
Tried it, but saw no difference.
Cheers,
Sven
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