From: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
To: sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GNOME Terminal: Horrible font after guix system reconfigure
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 22:46:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE4v=pjuQmAg+c7pcptYOvi-gtbQ39D_xSjc2fPGxLgj0sARsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1703fbe1598.fc31cb4f52655.4331615338880896571@zoho.com>
Hello,
sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. febr. 13., Csü 19:09):
> ---- On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 23:26:22 -0500 Gábor Boskovits <
> boskovits@gmail.com> wrote ----
> > Hello,
> >
> > Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. febr.
> 13.,
> > Csü 0:55):
> >
> > >
> > > Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hello!
> > > >
> > > > sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> skribis:
> > > >
> > > >> I have GNOME 3.32.2 now. When I launched a GNOME Terminal, I
> noticed
> > > that the font is too big and the spacing between characters seems odd:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > >
> https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/terminal-font-problem-2020-01-08.png
> > > >>
> > > >> Maybe there is a bug with the defaults (at least with the spacing)?
> > > >
> > > > This problem still shows up in ‘guix system vm’, so it’s not
> related to
> > > > state.
> > > >
> > > > Any idea how to fix it?
> > >
> > > I think I encountered this, I "fixed" it by going in to the Tweaks app
> > > and selecting some fonts where previously I think some options didn't
> > > have a font selected.
> > >
> > Same thing here. It would be nice if we could somehow manipulate these
> > setting from a script/dotfile, but I did not go deep into finding out
> how
> > that work. Anyone has any idea if that is supported?
>
> But whose setting is not properly set? GNOME Terminal, GNOME, ...? :)
>
> As far as I understand, GNOME applications use GSettings for application
> settings and gschema XML files (
> https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GSettings.html).
>
> GNOME Terminal, for example, comes with a gschema XML file which defines
> default values:
>
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/blob/gnome-3-32/src/org.gnome.Terminal.gschema.xml
>
> By default, the application seems to be set to use the system monospace
> font. So why is it that the font value in the default GNOME Terminal
> profile is not set. I don't remember if it appears empty or set to "None
> 10".
>
IIRC the horrible look and spacing was exactly because monospace was
selected, so I believe in my case the default was picked up, but it looked
very bad. Maybe we should just provide sensible defaults.
Best regards,
g_bor
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-13 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-09 0:34 GNOME Terminal: Horrible font after guix system reconfigure sirgazil
2020-01-09 1:16 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-01-09 14:21 ` sirgazil
2020-01-09 8:47 ` Christopher Baines
2020-01-09 14:23 ` sirgazil
2020-02-12 13:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-12 23:55 ` Christopher Baines
2020-02-13 4:26 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-02-13 18:09 ` sirgazil
2020-02-13 21:46 ` Gábor Boskovits [this message]
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