KDE's font choosing mechanism does not recognize Luxi Mono as a fixed width font. This can be detected by attempting to set the font in Konsole to a custom font, which lists only fonts that KDE believes are fixed-width. Also, in the Control Center, under Appearance and Themes, in the Fonts dialog, Luxi Mono does not show up as a Fixed Width font.
Some people will not notice the problem if they're currently using Luxi Mono, but if they change the Konsole font to another font, they will notice that Luxi Mono is not available in the list to switch to.
I reported this as a bug, but Stephen Kulow blames Qt or fontconfig and did not want to follow the problem further. However, I have not recently upgraded Qt or fontconfig -- only KDE to recent CVS. Other people who have recently upgraded KDE but not Qt or fontconfig also report the problem.
I started a general bug for this:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95832
Please add your comments there.
The ultimate cause of various font problems appears to be Qt and/or FontConfig.
In theory, you could fix this in FontConfig. But, I can't figure out why this doesn't work:
<match target="font">
<test qual="any" name="family">
<string>Luxi Mono</string>
</test>
<edit name="spacing" mode="assign">
<string>monospace</string>
</edit>
</match>It would help if just a little more info was available and a debug option for: "fc-cache" would help.
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