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in message <bc5h87$nb8$1@main.gmane.org>, wrote Jesse D. Guardiani
thusly...
>
> EVERY TIME, the WXP fonts will display fine in MOST KDE
> applications, but occassionally (like in Konqueror) the horizontal
> spacing will be all messed up.
> 
> Basically, every line of text will look like this:
> 
> T   H   I   S    I  S   A   G  O  O  D   E  X  A  M  P  L  E
> 
> Does anyone know what causes that? And how to fix it?!?

Looks like something somewhere is defining "charwidth" (mention in
fvwm(1) regarding use of TTF in relation to xft).

As i avoid KDE & almost all related products, someone else may be
more definite...


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