Rendering of small fonts works badly on gnome terminal

[Juho Vuori]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

What exactly happens is a bit difficult to explain, but basically under some conditions and when using small fonts, some pixels of the fonts get lost when using gnome terminal. I'll give an example of a way to reproduce the problem.

1. Start gnome terminal with typical settings, 80x24 window etc.
2. Edit Current Profile
3. Select DejaVu Sans Mono font, size 8
4. In bash prompt, type 'MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM'. Notice how the M's don't look quite how they should.
5. Press backspace, and suddenly all the M's are ok again, although very close to each other.

Something similar happens every now and then in different situations.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. Do you think that's the same issue than bug #33144 or http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333157 upstream? What version of Ubuntu do you use?

[Juho Vuori (juho-vuori)]

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Thanks for your bug. Do you think that's the same issue than bug #33144
> or http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333157 upstream? What
> version of Ubuntu do you use?

Yes, it sounds like the same one. I'm using dapper beta, although I've
run in to the same issue with older versions as well. But sorry, I
didn't notice the old bug. You can mark this as duplicate.

Juho

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for confirming that, marking rejected as duplicate then