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Bug 132009 - Text looks distorted when font in terminal is Serif Bold 14
Text looks distorted when font in terminal is Serif Bold 14
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
: 317577 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-01-20 16:57 UTC by Frances Keenan
Modified: 2015-03-06 00:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.5/2.6

Attachments
snapshot of distorted text in gnome-terminal (24.69 KB, image/jpeg)
2004-01-20 17:04 UTC, Frances Keenan 		Details

Description Frances Keenan 2004-01-20 16:57:35 UTC 
Using gnome-terminal from CVS HEAD 19 Jan 2004

-Start a gnome-terminal
-Click on Edit -> Current Profile
-Untick the 'Use the system terminal font' box
-Click on the Font button and select Serif Bold 14
-Notice that in the terminal, the larger font causes some of the text to
 overlap other text.
-Similiar occurs when you pick other larger font sizes.
Comment 1 Frances Keenan 2004-01-20 17:04:39 UTC 
Created attachment 23563 [details]
snapshot of distorted text in gnome-terminal
Comment 2 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2004-01-21 18:07:52 UTC 
In the screenshot you post you are using a proportional font, whose
spacing/kerning parameters get butchered by vte, resulting in the
ugliness you've gotten. You need to use monospaced fonts in your
terminals.

This must be a dup...
Comment 3 Olav Vitters 2005-09-30 21:59:14 UTC 
*** Bug 317577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson 2005-10-01 10:01:01 UTC 
Mariano: This also happens with monospaced fonts, atleast if you use size 8
(which worked just fine a while ago, can't remember which vte version). See bug
317577.