About a week or two ago a number of things changed in my terminals. 1) The default font in my xterm's became one with incredibly wide spacing between the characters. It looked like a very stretched out fixed width font.
2) My .Xresources on root is XTerm*scrollBar: on XTerm*saveLines: 9000 XTerm*background: red3 I get it with alias getre='xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources' Yet my backgrounds went from red to white. 3) My Konsole started with funny size fonts and I had to reset them (may not have been the same time). Unfortunately, I didn't note exactly when this started (and #3 may not have been the same time), so I don't know exactly which installs were at the same time. I run mostly testing. The only packages updated/installed in this period that look at all related are kdelibs 4:2.2.2-13.woody.8 (earlier messages on this list reported problems with AA fonts with this install, but would that affect xterm?); libncurses derived packages; base-config and base-files. Playing with xterm from the command line, I find: xterm -bg red3 starts a red terminal. xterm -fa "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-98-iso10646-1" and xterm -fn fixed look reasonable (they do differ from each other). xrdb -query reports xterm*Font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-98-iso10646-1 *fontList: -monotype-times new roman-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1,-monotype-times new roman-bold-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1=BOLD,-monotype-times new roman-medium-i-normal--18-180-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1=ITALIC (not sure if the latter is relevant) However, xterm -fn "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-98-iso10646-1" looks bad, identical to xterm as far as I can tell. One other thought: in this time, I also restarted the computer, after it had been running for 44 days. So I suppose I might have picked up a change to XFree (4.2.1-6) that I actually made quite awhile ago. I have many font related utilities installed, such as fontconfig, defoma, truetype fonts, installed. Can anyone provide insight into what's going on, what I need to do to fix things, and whether I should file a bug (and where)? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
