On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 08:53 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > The only question I have about this issue is: How does > gnome-terminal work consistently? That's unfortunately been my > fallback when the mix of library versions on my system produces > the wider urxvt font spacing. But if gnome-terminal's method > makes sense, maybe it would be appropriate for urxvt too.
I don't know, and I don't really have the inclination to dig into it to find out where the code is that handles the calculations. It might be part of Pango, which does text layout for many Gtk applications, or gnome-terminal might do it itself. Suggestions have been made in the past for how rxvt-unicode could be changed to render Xft fonts in ways that mimic Gnome applications (see http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2007q4/000514.html for example), but there's disagreement over what behaviour would be 'correct'. Applying a positive or negative adjustment to the letter spacing has the benefit of defaulting to not changing the current behaviour. -Mark. _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
