Bug 66658 – After switching to xorg: when using font Luxi Sans 12 a tilde '~' appears as a hyphen '-'

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andy 2004-10-07 08:32:29 UTC]

Luxy Sans (up to size 9, and) 12 font shows a - instead of ~.
I noticed that after switching to xorg (x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2),
since the backup versions of text files on my KDE3.3 desktop now had a trailing - instead of ~. Sizes 10, 11, and above 13 are ok.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.unmerged xfree
2.emerged xorg-x11
3.etc-updated over 250 config
files in /etc/... by accepting the update versions.

Actual Results:  
 

Expected Results:  
 

tux root # emerge info 
Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 
2.6.8-gentoo-r4) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 
ccache version 2.3 [enabled] 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo 
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="X acl alsa apm arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia 
cdr crypt cups divx4linux doc dvd dvdr dvdread emacs encode esd f77 foomaticdb 
gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg 
junit kde ldap libg++ libwww linguas_de linguas_en linguas_en_US linguas_ru 
live mad mikmod mmx motif mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mpeg mysql 
mythtv nas ncurses nls objc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds 
python qt quicktime readline ruby scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk 
tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 video_cards_radeon wmf x86 xml2 
xmms xprint xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 Andy 2004-10-10 15:24:56 UTC]

After creating xorg.conf with xorgconfig only font size 10 (and <= 8) seems to be affected. The fonts look however worse than before.

The previous xorg.conf I just symlinked to XF86Config-4 created by fglrxconfig (I have an ATI graphics card).

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-10-10 16:16:14 UTC]

Could you attach your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and local.conf and your xorg.conf please?

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2004-10-11 03:28:25 UTC]

this is just hinting going over the top iirc, there is another bug about this somewhere.

My suggestion is not to use luxi, but ttf-bitstream-vera .

[Comment 4 Andy 2004-10-11 05:11:10 UTC]

Created attachment 41534 [details]
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf

[Comment 5 Andy 2004-10-11 05:11:57 UTC]

Created attachment 41535 [details]
/etc/fonts/local.conf

[Comment 6 Andy 2004-10-11 05:18:27 UTC]

Created attachment 41536 [details]
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4

[Comment 7 Andy 2004-10-11 05:19:36 UTC]

Created attachment 41537 [details]
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.old

[Comment 8 Andy 2004-10-11 05:23:53 UTC]

foser wrote on 2004-10-11 03:28:
> My suggestion is not to use luxi, but ttf-bitstream-vera .

But luxi seems to be the default font in KDE(?), so this might affect more people.

[Comment 9 Andy 2004-10-11 05:29:59 UTC]

> But luxi seems to be the default font in KDE(?), so this might affect more people.

Oops, it's not the case, now default is helvetica, and this one looks OK down to size 8.

[Comment 10 [e-mail] 2005-07-11 10:02:17 UTC]

Had a similar problem where any upgrade to xorg-x11 would cause luxi font to
look worse. An old post on the forum (german) has the solution which was to
delete /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory. That solved my problem. BTW, this
directory has Luxi and bitstream vera fonts and seem to get picked over the ones
in Type1 directory.

[Comment 11 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-03-31 20:00:46 UTC]

Issue of fontconfig preferences of TrueType over Type1.

[Comment 12 foser (RETIRED) 2006-04-01 02:46:05 UTC]

There is not much we can do about that afaik, I rather just remove the ttf versions from the tree. iirc they're badly converted versions of the Type1's anyway and as such have no added value.

[Comment 13 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-08-21 08:51:14 UTC]

Is this thing still needed with new xterm?

Also is anyone interested in this thing?

Looks quite dead (the bug)

[Comment 14 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2009-10-12 08:04:52 UTC]

Well, currently by default luxi fonts are not installed. So this part of the bug is fixed. Fixing font itself is not possible since license prohibits modification. And lastly, I failed to reproduce this bug currently. even with size 6 I can see ~...