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From: iltommi on 10 Mar 2010 07:24 Dear all, Starting with the 8.5, using courier font in a text widget gives me some not fixed width text. What happened? here is a screenshot of the problem: http://yfrog.com/4jscreenshot20100310at132p Thanks a lot
From: Donal K. Fellows on 10 Mar 2010 08:43 On 10 Mar, 12:24, iltommi <tommaso.vi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Starting with the 8.5, using courier font in a text widget gives me > some not fixed width text. > What happened? Starting with 8.5, we use Xft for font rendering (by default) instead of the classic base-X11 renderer. This has good sides, but if things in the user's home directory are misconfigured (sadly frequent; no blame attached) then it can look real bad. The old renderer can be used instead; it's a configuration-time option during the build process. Advising in more detail than that would require us knowing exactly what you were trying to use as a font description. :-) Donal.
From: Amit Zaroo on 10 Mar 2010 08:45 On Mar 10, 5:24 pm, iltommi <tommaso.vi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > Starting with the 8.5, using courier font in a text widget gives me > some not fixed width text. > What happened? > > here is a screenshot of the problem:http://yfrog.com/4jscreenshot20100310at132p > > Thanks a lot Could you try using font actual on the font and see what it is getting set to actually? Regards Amit
From: iltommi on 10 Mar 2010 10:20
On Mar 10, 2:43 pm, "Donal K. Fellows" <donal.k.fell...(a)manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > Advising in more detail than that would require us knowing exactly > what you were trying to use as a font description. :-) how can I check the configuration? and the font? I'm on OsX and to crate the text widget I just use the -font {Andale 12} I'm happy with the xft (it looks nicer to me), I would continue to use it |