gnome-terminal-2.7.3-1 gnome-terminal appears to be positioning characters in variable-width fonts as if they were fixed-width. The font is adjusted at: Edit -> Current Profile -> General (tab) -> Font: If you choose, for example, Sans 10 Regular, you will see the "@", "m", and "w" characters overlap with and occasionally be clipped by other characters. Similar problems occur with these characters and some others (e.g. "P") with URW Chancery L 12 Regular, in addition to there being an excessive amount of vertical space with this font. Actually rendering characters with variable widths in a terminal window would likely cause all sorts of horizontal alignment problems. If rendering for variable-width fonts cannot be cleaned up so that characters position without overlap, clipping, or excessive spaces, perhaps the best thing to do would be to restrict the choice of font to fixed-width varieties only.
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Originally reported for Fedora Core 3. This is still a problem with Fedora 7 and gnome-terminal-2.18.1-1.fc7.
Bugzilla crashed on the last edit...trying to clear "NEEDINFO" since this is still present in Fedora 7.
Terminal emulation programs work with a grid and hence assume a fixed-width font. Not going to change.
That makes sense. Can the list of fonts in the chooser be restricted to fixed-width only?
Submitting upstream.