[Bug 812134] Re: Konsole + Terminus font, wrong line alignment (Update to terminus 4.36)

[Brett Keller]

It should be noted that Debian Wheezy, which uses the same 4.35-1
package for xfonts-terminus, does not suffer from this problem.

I compared Kubuntu Oneiric and Debian Wheezy side by side, and the same
version of Terminus appeared with different font size availabilities in
each one.

Kubuntu: sizes 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 24
Debian: sizes 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 21, 24

I tested each of these font sizes on each distribution, and the only
ones that displayed the buggy behavior were the sizes that were
available *only* in Kubuntu.  All of the Debian sizes display fine.
Sizes 11, 14, and 17 display the bug in Kubuntu, but all of the other
Kubuntu sizes display fine.

If I had to guess what was happening here, it would be that the buggy
sizes do not actually exist in this bitmap font.  Something is trying to
automatically scale up what *should* be sizes 10, 13, and 16 (as they
appear in Debian) to sizes +1 from these, and since Terminus is a bitmap
font designed *not* to be scaled, this scaling breaks the perfect
monospacing.

The same "wrong" font sizes appear no matter the KDE program trying to
use the font: Konsole, Kate, KDE System Settings, etc.  Interestingly, I
tried installing Gedit and GNOME Terminal to test with GTK, and while
these programs let you choose any size of Terminus that you want, they
had little "suggestion" marks under the *proper* sizes, i.e. the sizes
as listed in Debian.

Does this indicate that the problem is more to do with KDE's font
rendering for bitmap fonts than with Terminus itself?  Debian Wheezy
currently runs KDE 4.6.5, while Kubuntu runs KDE 4.7.4, so there is an
inequality in the comparison there.  I would test with another
monospaced bitmap font, but I do not know of any others in the Ubuntu &
Debian repositories off the top of my head.

Suggestions?

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