[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] Bug#628167: rxvt-unicode-256color: Gap between font glyphs with xft and hinting

[Julien Valroff]

Source: rxvt-unicode-256color
Version: 9.11-1.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi,

When using xft with hinting enabled and certain fonts, rxvt-unicode displays
a large gap between font glyphs.

The attached patch taken from ArchLinux fixes this issue.

I have tested it myself with success and I now enjoy from a really nice
looking terminal.

Thanks for considering this patch for the next upload, and thanks for your
work.

Cheers,
Julien

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode-256color depends on:
ii  base-passwd                   3.5.22     Debian base system master password
ii  libc6                         2.13-4     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfontconfig1                2.8.0-2.2  generic font configuration library
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.6.0-10 GCC support library
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0            2.23.3-3   GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.28.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libperl5.12                   5.12.3-7   shared Perl library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.4.3-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxft2                       2.2.0-2    FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.6-1  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  ncurses-term                  5.9-1      additional terminal type definitio

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode-256color recommends:
ii  ttf-dejavu                    2.33-1     Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-
ii  ttf-sazanami-gothic           20040629-8 Sazanami Gothic Japanese TrueType 

rxvt-unicode-256color suggests no packages.

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