Upgrade from media-libs/fontconfig-2.14.0-r1 to 2.14.2 result in noticeable decrease of letter spacing interval, at least in urxvt. I'm using monospace D2Coding font patched with Nerd icons. In urxvt this fontconfig upgrade result in increase of $COLUMNS from 100 to 106 for same urxvt window size just because of decreased letter spacing. To me text became harder to read because of this change. I'm not sure is this a fontconfig feature/bug/misconfiguration or a font issue.
Would you mind reporting this upstream at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/issues & link the bug here?
Same for me. I noticed that media-libs/fontconfig-2.14.2 installs a new /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-none.conf even though I already have 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf active: # eselect fontconfig list | grep 10-sub-pixel [11] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf [12] 10-sub-pixel-none.conf * [13] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf * [14] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf [15] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf # ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Mar 20 11:50 /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-none.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-none.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Mar 20 11:50 /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf Running either of the following commands seems to fix the issue for me: # eselect fontconfig disable 10-sub-pixel-none.conf # rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-none.conf I'm not yet sure whether subsequent merges of fontconfig would reinstall the offending symlink or not. It doesn't seem to get reinstalled if I "emerge -1v --noconfmem '=media-libs/fontconfig-2.14.2'" right now, which is the behavior I want but not the behavior I expect.
Looks like I've similar setup (on 2.14.0): # eselect fontconfig list | grep 10-sub-pixel [10] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf [11] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf * [12] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf [13] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
Upstream response: > build with --with-default-sub-pixel-rendering=rgb for configure or -Ddefault-sub-pixel-rendering=rgb for meson > Or simply remove it if you have your own way to enable it.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=aea637aa112edbe47f15e12f1d073bbfa0808977 commit aea637aa112edbe47f15e12f1d073bbfa0808977 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-04-15 03:24:50 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-04-15 03:37:44 +0000 media-libs/fontconfig: don't enable subpixel rendering by default This changed in 2.14.2 inadvertently. We have our own mechanism for users to choose this (eselect-fontconfig) but the default for this option was installing /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-none.conf. Stop doing that and now it installs /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-no-sub-pixel.conf. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/900681 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> media-libs/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.14.2-r1.ebuild | 220 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 220 insertions(+)
Is 2.14.2-r1 OK?
(In reply to Sam James from comment #6) > Is 2.14.2-r1 OK? Right after emerging it - no, I still have the issue. Then after `eselect fontconfig disable 10-sub-pixel-none.conf` - yes, everything looks just as before upgrade.
Created attachment 860773 [details, diff] fontconfig-delete-bad.patch Could you try this?
(In reply to Sam James from comment #8) > Created attachment 860773 [details, diff] [details, diff] > fontconfig-delete-bad.patch > > Could you try this? Here is what I did: # eselect fontconfig enable 10-sub-pixel-none.conf (This restored invalid behaviour, so I can do clean reinstall and see is it helps.) # mkdir /usr/local/portage/media-libs # cp -a /usr/portage/media-libs/fontconfig /usr/local/portage/media-libs/ # cd /usr/local/portage # patch -p1 </tmp/fontconfig-delete-bad.patch # cd media-libs/fontconfig # ebuild fontconfig-2.14.2-r2.ebuild digest merge This doesn't helps - I still have the issue, and config is still exists and enabled: # eselect fontconfig list | grep sub [10] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf [11] 10-sub-pixel-none.conf * [12] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf * [13] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf [14] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=994cc012905d733e8dbfb0fa94d7eade79223345 commit 994cc012905d733e8dbfb0fa94d7eade79223345 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-04-27 06:37:56 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-04-27 06:39:38 +0000 media-libs/fontconfig: don't override user prefs. on antialiasing 2.14.2 installed 10-sub-pixel-none.conf unconditionally outside of our own preference management system (eselect). For versions 2.14.2 <= x <= 2.14.2-r2, delete that file if it's installed. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/900681 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> ...ontconfig-2.14.2-r1.ebuild => fontconfig-2.14.2-r2.ebuild} | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
