Xterm font settings in Xresources/Xdefaults neglected after update

[meine]

Last week I updated FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6 amd64. A lot of files changed because of changed dependencies (forgot the name). Since then font and size settings in .Xresources and (linked) .Xdefaults are neglected by x11/xterm version 392.

Settings in the same .Xresources / .Xdefaults for x11/rxvt-unicode (urxvt) are properly displayed. So it can't be the fonts themselves.

Strangely some fonts and sizes set in

xterm*faceName

and

xterm*faceSize

work well, but are suddenly neglected for Inconsolata size 13 that I used this way for a long time.

Does anyone has the same observations, and hopefully a solution?

TIA,

 

[kpedersen]

Does anyone has the same observations, and hopefully a solution?

As a workaround, I believe faceName (same as the -fa argument) can take the name and size (and parameters). For example:

xterm*faceName: xft:Inconsolata:size=13:antialias=True

That might serve as a solution?

 

[meine]

It works for other fonts like terminus-medium, but not for Inconsolata. Somehow the kerning of Inconsolata becomes too wide. xterm*autohint=true doesn't work.

Searching the net, there seem to be a lot of alike issues on different terminal programs. Lots of them have to do with improper kerning and somewhere a line of code that overrules other settings.

I'll search on.