[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] [Bug 309792] Re: rxvt-unicode: Excessive font spacing

[Simon Hirscher]

Adding to my previous message, I noticed that 'Xft.hintstyle:
hintslight' (instead of hintfull) also triggers too big a letter
spacing, though not as excessive as with 'Xft.rgba: rgb'. Full example:

Xft.dpi:        96
Xft.antialias:  true
Xft.rgba:       none
Xft.hinting:    true
Xft.autohint:   true
Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight

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Title:
  rxvt-unicode: Excessive font spacing

Status in rxvt-unicode package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: rxvt-unicode

  I'm having a problem with font spacing in urxvt. All characters seem
  to have excessive white-space in between each other. I use DejaVu Sans
  Mono (size 8) and there is a big difference between xterm and urxvt.

  Heres a mockup of what I mean: http://i35.tinypic.com/qsmp.png
  (stolen from an ArchLinux forum post here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=55634 and another related
  thread here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44800)

  My .Xdefaults looks like this:

  urxvt.font:                 xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=8

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