Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 21:55:34 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Font line spacing change? Message-ID: <CAN6yY1sY%2BKWWxfNes%2BtWjJGGi%2BkfRXi03T6=QWcS=xNpxbxQ0g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1unj9%2BxRNttuhDM52hjbH8brXtKkFpvNagtBznZiSNnjQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1syKvyy=%2BCDVeGE3-O2rU_AiTCZ%2B4Hr2k3RjwKPTosTUQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1unj9%2BxRNttuhDM52hjbH8brXtKkFpvNagtBznZiSNnjQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> After my first reboot in about a month I see something wrong with the >> spacing of my fonts. There is more space between lines sop that the text >> looks like 1.5 spacing. It makes my initial screen after starting X look >> messy as windows now overlap. >> >> The attached image shows the problem. Changing the font makes no >> difference. All seem to have the excess space between lines. This only >> shows up in Mate/Gnome apps like mate-terminal, yelp, emacs25, and file >> selection windows (caja?), etc. I don't see it in firefox. It is clearly >> not caja or mate-desktop as these have not been updated since last year. >> >> Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone know where to look for the port >> that could trigger this? I'm just a bit suspicious of freetype2 since it >> had a rather major update. >> >> System is running 11-STABLE r317350 amd64 and all ports are current as of >> 7 hours ago. The problem appeared after a reboot, so I have little idea of >> how recently this might have happened. I do have logs of all installs since >> my last restart of X on 5-May. >> > > OK. It does look like freetype2 is the culprit. I tried changing to a > non-TrueType/Type1 font an the spacing is back to normal. With > LucidaTypewriter-Sans, the spacing is normal. So it looks like the issue is > the updated print/freetype2-2.8. I'll open a bug report when I have fully > confirmed by rolling back to the old version with everything else at Latest. > I tried switching to TT metrics, but no improvement. I also tried going back to V38, not that seemed likely. Again, no change. I rolled back to 2.7.1 and it works correctly again. This is using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. I am attaching an image of another 24x80 mate-terminal that is correct and will open a ticket on this shortly. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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