pages tagged busterfaibloghttp://blog.fai-project.org/tags/buster/faiblogikiwiki2019-07-09T14:41:37ZXterm fonts problems after Buster installationhttp://blog.fai-project.org/posts/buster-changes/2019-07-09T14:41:37Z2019-07-02T15:34:38Z
<p>I've installed a desktop with buster to see if my FAI configuration was
working. When I opened a xterm window I say that the font I use
looks different than on stretch. It looks not that clean and a little
more bold.</p>
<p>I've checked if the correct fonts were used using "xterm -report-fonts"
which correctly showed</p>
<blockquote><p>xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--16-<em>-</em>-<em>-</em>-*-iso10646-1</p></blockquote>
<p>I'm setting this in my ~/.Xdefaults</p>
<blockquote><p> Xft.hintstyle: hintfull</p></blockquote>
<p>but on Buster the hintstyle (reported by xterm -report-fonts) was now
1 instead of 3. I found out that the package fontconfig-config has a
now a new debconf question:</p>
<blockquote><p>fontconfig-config fontconfig/hinting_style</p></blockquote>
<p>I've set this to hintfull, but still no change. Then I found a very
detailed description on <a href="https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html">FreeType Subpixel Hinting</a>
and Debian bug <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/867657">#867657</a>.</p>
<p>The solution was to also set the variable</p>
<blockquote><p>export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35</p></blockquote>
<p><span class="selflink">buster</span></p>