Mark H. Wilkinson wrote:  [Mon May 11 2009, 04:17:38PM EDT]
> 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. 

Understandable.

> 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'. 

Interesting.

> Applying a positive or negative adjustment to the letter
> spacing has the benefit of defaulting to not changing the current
> behaviour.

The current behavior of urxvt is to produce terminals of
different widths depending on underlying xft libraries, whereas
gnome-terminal seems to maintain consistency across library
versions.  IMHO your patch is a good one but would be better if
urxvt provided a consistent starting point, otherwise the user
has to adjust preferences every time they update their system.

In other words, while I understand your reluctance to dig further
into gnome-terminal's behavior, I think it would be worth
someone's while...

Regards,
Aron

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