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Monospace font broken after upgrade to Jaunty

Asked by Vegard Svanberg

After upgrading from Intrepid to Jaunty, something happened to the Monospace font:

Before (correct):

http://www.svanberg.no/~vegard/bilder/div/monospacefont1.jpg

Now (wrong):

http://www.svanberg.no/~vegard/bilder/div/monospacefont2.jpg

I've chosen (in gnome-terminal or system->preferences->appearance the Dejavu Sans Mono font, but it makes no difference in gnome-terminal. It doesn't seem that the Dejavu font is used, but some other font instead. It seems to work okay if I view a text file in Firefox, though.

Any ideas?

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This question was originally filed as bug #366417.

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Vegard Svanberg (vegard-svanberg) said : 		#1

Found the solution:

System->Preferences->Appearance:

Best Shapes is now chosen by default. Change to Subpixel smoothing and everything seems to be as it was before.

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Thomas Foss (tafoxx) said : 		#2

Interesting... turning on subpixel smoothing seems to make the terminal look the way it used to, but everything else looks abnormal now. Is it possible to enable subpixel smoothing only for monospace fonts?

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