[mythtv-users] Text lengths

[Peter Lord]

On Friday 16 Oct 2009 08:29:30 Peter Lord wrote:
> On Thursday 15 Oct 2009 23:24:48 Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > On 10/15/2009 05:34 PM, Peter Lord wrote:
> > > On Thursday 15 Oct 2009 20:07:03 Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > >> This is most likely due to having an improperly-set aspect ratio.
> > >>
> > >> What, specifically, is your physical display's aspect (the TV/monitor
> > >> screen's)
> > >
> > > I have a 16:9 widescreen TV
> > >
> > >> and what do you have set for X (DPI and/or DisplaySize--the
> > >> output of xdpyinfo would show everything)
> > >
> > > screen #0:
> > >   dimensions:    1280x1024 pixels (677x382 millimeters)
> > >   resolution:    48x68 dots per inch
> >
> > ...
> >
> > >> and what theme are you using?
> > >
> > > blootubelite-wide
> >
> > All that looks good.  I'm guessing you have a font server that's
> > returning fonts at some square-pixel pitch (i.e. 75x75dpi or
> > 100x100dpi), which is wreaking havoc with your much-less-than <whatever>
> > dpi X settings and your non-square pixels.  Do the fonts look unusually
> > wide, especially compared to a desktop system with square pixels?
> 
> No, not really
> 
> > The font server DPI could be set by anything from Xft.dpi (in your X
> > resources file(s)) to fontconfig.
> 
> I don't have a font server (xfs) running.
> 
> > Also, since the blootube* themes use Bitstream Vera Sans, you need to
> > have the Bitstream fonts installed.  IIRC, current *buntu is (and
> > possibly other distros are also) installing DejaVu, instead, so if
> > they're not providing a proper fontconfig replacement, you'll get some
> > other (likely very-wrong) font, which could cause issues.
> 
> I did come across
>  http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/396841 - sounds like
>  Bitstream Vera Sans should have been removed from the themes.
> 
> I'll tinker some more ...

I've noticed that all the wide themes have this problem, yet none of the non-
wide themes do.