Bug 647814 - miscfixed semicondensed 10pt font doesn't render correctly
Summary: miscfixed semicondensed 10pt font doesn't render correctly
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-terminal
Version: 14
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Behdad Esfahbod
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-10-29 15:10 UTC by Ed Marshall
Modified: 2012-08-16 17:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 17:17:02 UTC
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Description Ed Marshall 2010-10-29 15:10:07 UTC
gnome-terminal (and, it appears, any other GNOME app) has difficulty rendering MiscFixed SemiCondensed (6x13 bitmap font; the default font for xterm) at 10pt. Choosing "Bold SemiCondensed" or "Oblique SemiCondensed" works as expected, but choosing simply "SemiCondensed" appears to bump the font point down to 9pt.

Entering the gnome-terminal font picker, selecting MiscFixed SemiCondensed 10pt, and clicking OK, then re-entering the font picker shows "Regular" as the current selection, rather than "SemiCondensed". However in gconf, /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/font contains "MiscFixed SemiCondensed 10".

xterm works as expected, so this isn't a system-wide font rendering issue; perhaps just something with GTK?

I suspect this isn't anything specifically related to gnome-terminal, but I'm not entirely sure what component to file it against, and it's the only application I actually care about this font in. My apologies in advance to the gnome-terminal folks; could you reassign this appropriately?

I'm running F14 gold, current as of today, under VirtualBox; this is new since upgrading from F13. I'm happy to do any testing if necessary, and can supply any logs you might need.

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