#1 2017-07-22 15:34:12

bunsenbro

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Line Spacing on Desktop

The line spacing/space in between lines seems womewhat odd--and this is independent of the chosen font--in both of these: Conky and Terminator. In particular terminator seems to have too much vertical stretch. Is there any way to decrease the spacing in between these lines of text?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Line Spacing on Desktop

I'm not sure I understand what you mean, can you post a screenshot?

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Do you experience these problems with any other programs?

You can try the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator, it is bug-free, very lightweight and pre-configured in our desktop:

sudo apt install rxvt-unicode-256color
urxvt

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nobody

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Re: Line Spacing on Desktop

it is bug-free

You wish

On topic: OP might want to check the properties lineSpace & letterSpace (see man urxvt) to adjust for fonts with too much depth above or below as you just described and/or problematic letter spacing.

Terminator and GNOME terminal use libvte/VTE, so maybe OP can find a way to tune font rendering with that engine too.

EDIT: Seems like that's an open bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738781#c3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1437999 seems to include some freetype hacks.

brontosaurusrex

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Re: Line Spacing on Desktop

Urxvt line spacing example.

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2017-07-22 22:15:45)

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Line Spacing on Desktop

it is bug-free

You wish

Erm, yes, quite  :8

What I of course should have said was that it is largely bug free and is a known quantity (for me, at least) in respect of font rendering and configuration.

Sorry!

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