Felix Miata posted on Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:43:18 -0500 as excerpted:
> On 2011/11/17 13:16 (GMT+0200) Dotan Cohen composed:
>
>> Felix Miata wrote:
>
>>> Long time ago. Don't remember whether bug filed in a distro or in
>>> KDE, but got fixed. I looked and couldn't find it. Did you try a
>>> different font family with similar result, like Droid Sans Mono or
>>> DejaVu Sans Mono?
>
>> Most of the fonts do suffer this, and all the legible ones. There do
>> exits fonts (FreeMono for instance) which do not suffer.
>
> Turns out the bug I had in mind isn't yet closed:
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58615
>
> I forgot about this one: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57564
>
> Do you ever test in anything besides Gentoo? Are you sure you don't have
> a fontconfig problem?
Dotan doesn't use Gentoo. AFAIK (from a different thread) he uses
kubuntu.
I'm a gentooer, as are Dale and Alex/Wonko, but not Dotan.
But it could indeed be a fontconfig issue of some sort. That's why I
asked about font type and aliasing and hinting, in my response.
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