[Bug 213857] New: Bold text in konsole is cut off

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213857

           Summary: Bold text in konsole is cut off
           Product: konsole
           Version: 2.3.3
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: konsole-devel@...
        ReportedBy: peter.ruskin@...


Version:           2.3.3 (using 4.3.3 (KDE 4.3.3), Gentoo)
Compiler:          x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.31-gentoo-r4

My prompt is [15:35 root@nero ~] but it displays as [15:35 root@ner~].
Similarly, ls -l /dev/sr* gives:
brw-rw-rw- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 05 Nov 2009 09:26 /dev/sr
brw-rw-rw- 1 root cdrom 11, 1 05 Nov 2009 09:27 /dev/sr

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Christoph Feck <christoph@...> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Christoph Feck <christoph maxiom de>  2009-11-10 14:34:04 ---
Which font do you use? Does this problem show with every font?

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--- Comment #2 from Peter Ruskin <peter ruskin dsl pipex com>  2009-11-10 15:09:41 ---
Not with every font - just my favourite (Luxi Mono 13).

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--- Comment #3 from Christoph Feck <christoph maxiom de>  2009-11-10 16:03:10 ---
Luxi Mono has different widths for regular vs. bold style. I have tried other
fonts, and only Luxi Mono shows this behavior.

Konsole uses fixed size cells, it does not support proportional fonts. It would
be possible to set the cell size to that of the bold style, but this would mean
that there are blank gaps in regular text, as Konsole does not render
characters individually.

I see no way how this could be fixed. You could delete the bold variants (files
luximb*.ttf) to work around this problem.

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--- Comment #4 from Robert Knight <robertknight gmail com>  2009-11-10 19:23:07 ---
I'm not sure if this might help:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.misc/2006-11/msg00262.html

> It would be possible to set the cell size to that of the bold style, but
> this would mean that there are blank gaps in regular text,
> as Konsole does not render characters individually.

This is true, although I'm not sure if it is possible to artifically set the
width of characters using fontconfig (see above), although this will change the
rendering output.

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--- Comment #5 from Peter Ruskin <peter ruskin dsl pipex com>  2009-11-11 12:16:35 ---
Thanks Robert.  I tried the tip in that link, with the following result:
# fc-list "Luxi Mono" : family style spacing
Luxi Mono:style=Bold:spacing=100
Luxi Mono:style=Bold
Luxi Mono:style=Regular:spacing=100
Luxi Mono:style=Oblique:spacing=100
Luxi Mono:style=Bold Oblique
Luxi Mono:style=Bold Oblique:spacing=100

However, the font still won't show in selection boxes, either in kde-3.5.10 or
4.3.  Furthermore, when I manually entered Luxi Mono in the konsole config
file, it displays cut-off as before, although in kde-3.5.10 it displays fine.

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