Comment 4 for bug 309792

Someone is discussing the issue over there.

http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2009q2/001008.html

I am a long term user of rxvt-unicode, but the current display of all fonts provided on ubuntu is unbearable. It may be an Xft problem, but I just cannot work with this overly wide spacing between the letters.

The interesting bit is, that on Intrepid, I just had to make sure that gnome-settings-daemon is started before the rxvt-unicode. Then letter space was ok. But when I first started the urxvt, the letter spacing was wrong.

Now on Karmic Koala, starting in the proper order does not help.