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Hello, thanks for the answer, the sh-option seems to work, but when I use
Code:
xterm -sh 2
I get double linespace and values of 1.1 or 1.2 up to 1.9 make no difference.
Markus
hmm - if I can reproduce this, I can investigate. At the moment I'm not seeing this (with
Debian 6.0). On that, fc-list says I have "DejaVu Sans Mono:Bold Oblique". Running xterm
with/without the space makes no difference (underlines always show up).
I don't think there is one source of information for this stuff. It's all rather messy and certain bits have evolved or been obsoleted over time. Best just to google for 'X' and 'fonts' and start there.
The desktop environments such as kde/xfce have their own hinting settings which can have a major effect. if you're using one of those desktops then perhaps try playing with the settings. You may also want to try using a minimal window-manager based desktop (which is what I use) which won't interfere with the font rendering.
Other than that, the only other thing I can think of that might cause your underscore to go missing would be if your X display is not running at the native resolution of your screen (assuming lcd panel).
Other than the above, I can't think of any other suggestions.
Last edited by GazL; 10-30-2012 at 08:47 AM.
Reason: spelling/typos
Gazl, I had an idea and tried other WMs, normally I use Xmonad. The problem with xterm is the same with fluxbox and blackbox, XFCE has completely other settings for xterm.
Now I am using Terminal from XFCE and this works fine.
Very odd that we get different results. I've tried xterm with font sizes from tiny->huge and they all display just fine (though when I use xmag it does look like the underscore is only a single pixel high when rendered so it would be susceptible to obliteration by any errant rendering.
Just out of interest. If you run xmag -mag 16 and select the area where the missing underscore is, do you see it in the magnification
Not so odd, considering that a lot of the hinting configuration is installed automatically (and not consistently from one platform to another). Given a specific version and configuration, it's (usually...) possible to isolate the problem.
Don't know whether you got anywhere with this Markus, but I just thought you'd be interested to know that when I just tried the latest nouveau and libdrm version from git on my system, my underscores disappeared too, so you're not alone in this. I swapped back to using the nvidia blob.
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