Created attachment 341853 screenshot
The screenshots i combined above were not mine. I got them from another user. I'll ask him.
Here is another screenshot of my own desktop, also showing this issue.
I do see a difference between the two pango-view commands.
$ xrdb -query | grep Xft Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi: 85 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.rgba: rgb
$ FC_DEBUG=1 fc-match sans-serif:bold:pixelsize=13.3 FC_DEBUG=1 FC_DEBUG=1 Match Pattern has 14 elts (size 16) family: "DejaVu Sans"(w) "Bitstream Vera Sans"(w) "Verdana"(w) "Arial"(w) "Albany AMT"(w) "Luxi Sans"(w) "Nimbus Sans L"(w) "Helvetica"(w) "Lucida Sans Unicode"(w) "BPG Glaho International"(w) "Tahoma"(w) "AR PL UMing HK"(w) "AR PL UMing CN"(w) "Nachlieli"(w) "Lucida Sans Unicode"(w) "Yudit Unicode"(w) "Kerkis"(w) "ArmNet Helvetica"(w) "Artsounk"(w) "BPG UTF8 M"(w) "Norasi"(w) "Saysettha Unicode"(w) "JG Lao Old Arial"(w) "GF Zemen Unicode"(w) "Pigiarniq"(w) "B Davat"(w) "B Compset"(w) "Kacst-Qr"(w) "Urdu Nastaliq Unicode"(w) "Raghindi"(w) "Mukti Narrow"(w) "malayalam"(w) "Sampige"(w) "padmaa"(w) "Hapax Berbère"(w) "MS Gothic"(w) "UmePlus P Gothic"(w) "SimSun"(w) "PMingLiu"(w) "AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni"(w) "AR PL New Sung"(w) "MgOpen Modata"(w) "VL Gothic"(w) "IPAMonaGothic"(w) "IPAGothic"(w) "Sazanami Gothic"(w) "Kochi Gothic"(w) "AR PL KaitiM GB"(w) "AR PL KaitiM Big5"(w) "AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni"(w) "AR PL SungtiL GB"(w) "AR PL Mingti2L Big5"(w) "MS ゴシック"(w) "ZYSong18030"(w) "TSCu_Paranar"(w) "UnDotum"(w) "Baekmuk Dotum"(w) "Baekmuk Gulim"(w) "KacstQura"(w) "Lohit Bengali"(w) "Lohit Gujarati"(w) "Lohit Hindi"(w) "Lohit Punjabi"(w) "Lohit Tamil"(w) "Lohit Malayalam"(w) "Lohit Kannada"(w) "Lohit Telugu"(w) "Lohit Oriya"(w) "LKLUG"(w) "Waree"(w) "Loma"(w) "Garuda"(w) "Umpush"(w) "FreeSans"(w) "Arial Unicode MS"(w) "Arial Unicode"(w) "Code2000"(w) "Code2001"(w) "sans-serif"(w) "Roya"(w) "Koodak"(w) "Terafik"(w) "Bitstream-Vera-Sans"(w) slant: 0(i)(s) weight: 200(i)(s) width: 100(i)(s) pixelsize: 13.3(f)(s) hintstyle: 3(i)(s) hinting: FcTrue(s) verticallayout: FcFalse(s) autohint: FcFalse(s) globaladvance: FcTrue(s) lang: "en-US"(s) fontversion: 2147483647(i)(s) embeddedbitmap: FcTrue(s) decorative: FcFalse(s)
Best score 0 0 1e+99 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.14734e+11Pattern has 20 elts (size 20) family: "DejaVu Sans"(w) familylang: "en"(w) style: "Bold"(w) stylelang: "en"(w) fullname: "DejaVu Sans Bold"(w) fullnamelang: "en"(w) slant: 0(i)(w) weight: 200(i)(w) width: 100(i)(w) foundry: "unknown"(w) file: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf"(w) index: 0(i)(w) outline: FcTrue(w) scalable: FcTrue(w) charset: 0000: 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff 7fffffff 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 0001: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 0002: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 008873ff 0003: ffffffff ffffffff f18effff 7c300007 ffffd7f0 fffffffb ffff7fff ffffffff 0004: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffff7f ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 0005: 3c0fffff fffe000f fe7fffff fffffffe 000006ff ffff0000 ffff00cf 001f07ff 0006: 88201000 07fffffe 043fffff fe10ffff 012600ff 84208252 00205040 03ff0000 0007: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ffffffff 073ff8ff 000e: 00000000 80000000 00000000 00000000 fef02596 3bffecae 33ff3f5f 00000000 0010: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ffffffff ffff003f 1fffffff 0014: effffefe ffbfffff fff7f7ff ffffffff ffffffff 3fffffff ffffffff fffff7ff 0015: ffff00ff 7fffffff fffdffff fff007ff 007ffc3f 0000ffff 40000000 00000002 0016: 00000000 00000000 000000c0 007fc000 1fffffff 00000000 00000000 00000000 001d: ffdfffff ffff7fcf efffffff 098007ff f8000020 ffffffff 000003f0 00000000 001e: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 8fffffff ffffffff ffffffff 03ffffff 001f: 3f3fffff ffffffff aaff3f3f 3fffffff ffffffff ffdfffff efcfffdf 7fdcffff 0020: ffffffff fffffcff ffffffff fff3fc0f 001f7fff 003fffff 18c30000 00000002 0021: fffffbff ffffffff fff84bff ffffffff ffff001f ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 0022: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff fffcffff ffc0ff7f ffffffff 0023: f303ffff 000019f3 00000000 24380000 f8100080 00007fff 0000c000 00000028 0024: 00000000 0000000c 00000000 000003ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0025: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 0026: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 1fffffff 0007ffff 00000000 00000000 0027: fffff3de fffffeff 7f47afff fffffffe ff1fffff 7ffeffff 00000000 ffff0fc1 0028: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 0029: 00000cc0 00000000 00000003 00000000 00000018 00000000 003fc000 0c000800 002a: 1ffff007 00008000 00000000 e0000000 ffffffff 07ffc001 00000000 06000000 002b: 07ffffff 0000000f 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 002c: 00000000 00000000 00000000 3afeffff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 002d: 00000000 ffff0000 ffffffff 0000803f 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 002e: 01000000 00004000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 004d: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff 00a6: 00000000 00000000 003330f0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00a7: 007c0000 ff0f03c0 0000cfc0 00000000 00000003 00000000 00000000 f8000000 00f6: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000020 00000000 00fb: e0f8007f 5f7fffff fffcffdb ffffffff c03ffc03 00000000 06000000 f0000300 00fe: 00000000 0000000f 00000000 ffdf0000 ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 9fffffff 00ff: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 2e000000 01d3: ffffffff ffffffff 007fffff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 01d5: 00000000 7b000000 fffdfc5f 00000fff 00000000 00000000 fff00000 ffffffff 01d6: 000000ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 01d7: 00000000 00000000 ffc00000 ffffffff 0000ffff 00000000 00000000 003ff000 (w) lang: aa|ab|af|ar|ast|ava|ay|az|az-ir|ba|bam|be|bg|bi|bin|br|bs|bua|ca|ce|ch|chm|co|cs|cu|cv|cy|da|de|el|en|eo|es|et|eu|fa|fi|fj|fo|fr|ful|fur|fy|ga|gd|gl|gn|gv|ha|haw|he|ho|hr|hu|hy|ia|ibo|id|ie|ik|io|is|it|iu|ka|kaa|ki|kk|kl|ku|ku-ir|kum|kv|kw|ky|la|lb|lez|ln|lo|lt|lv|mg|mh|mi|mk|mo|mt|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|nr|nso|ny|oc|om|os|pl|pt|rm|ro|ru|sah|sco|se|sel|sh|shs|sk|sl|sm|sma|smj|smn|sms|so|sq|sr|ss|st|sv|sw|tg|tk|tn|to|tr|ts|tt|tw|tyv|ug|uk|uz|ven|vi|vo|vot|wa|wen|wo|xh|yap|yi|yo|zu(w) fontversion: 147456(i)(w) capability: "otlayout:DFLT otlayout:arab otlayout:armn otlayout:cyrl otlayout:grek otlayout:hebr otlayout:lao otlayout:latn otlayout:nko "(w) fontformat: "TrueType"(w) decorative: FcFalse(w)
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"
Created attachment 341853
screenshot
The screenshots i combined above were not mine. I got them from another user.
I'll ask him.
Here is another screenshot of my own desktop, also showing this issue.
I do see a difference between the two pango-view commands.
$ xrdb -query | grep Xft
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.dpi: 85
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xft.rgba: rgb
$ FC_DEBUG=1 fc-match sans-serif: bold:pixelsize= 13.3 Vera-Sans" (w)
verticallayout : FcFalse(s)
globaladvance: FcTrue(s)
fontversion: 2147483647(i)(s)
embeddedbitmap : FcTrue(s)
FC_DEBUG=1
FC_DEBUG=1
Match Pattern has 14 elts (size 16)
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lang: "en-US"(s)
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(w)
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decorative: FcFalse(w)
DejaVuSans- Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"