Description of problem: The "Liberation Mono" font is not really monospace. This causes layout problems in text editors (e.g. when editing source code). I have experienced this with size 9 (haven't tried other sizes), on three editors: gedit, kwrite and kate. Given that gedit and kwrite are using two different toolkits (GTK+ and Qt), it would appear that the bug is either in the font itself, or somewhere in the X server. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 12 + updates as of 29 January 2009. How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open an editor like gedit. 2. Change font to Liberation Mono 9. 3. Type in several columns of numbers, with spacing between the columns. Actual results: Text columns do not line up cleanly. Expected results: Text columns line up cleanly. Additional info: I'll attach a few example screengrabs (as followups to this bug report) which show the problem.
Created attachment 388510 [details] example of the layout problem in Gedit shows the layout problem in Gedit. Selected font is Liberation Mono 9.
Created attachment 388511 [details] layout problem in kwrite
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 508899 ***