Re: GNOME Terminal: Horrible font after guix system reconfigure

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello,

sirgazil <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. febr. 13., Csü 19:09):

>  ---- On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 23:26:22 -0500 Gábor Boskovits <
> address@hidden> wrote ----
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > Christopher Baines <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. febr.
> 13.,
>  > Csü 0:55):
>  >
>  > >
>  > > Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>  > >
>  > > > Hello!
>  > > >
>  > > > sirgazil <address@hidden> 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

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