On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 07:24:55PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > No, attached is a screenshot of "xterm -fa DejaVuSansMono -fs 14".
I think you may be getting FreeMono.ttf instead of DejaVuSansMono.ttf. > > [1] On my Debian Stretch system installed freshly as of Friday, 17 March, > > "matching" is a generous term. "xfd -fa X-14" also brings up DejaVu > > Sans Mono-14. Frustratingly, "fc-list $pattern" as documented in the > > fc-list(1) manpage seems to be useless, returning no matches no matter > > what $pattern is. But that's a bug for a different package... > > Apparently fc-match gives better results than fc-list. On my system it > revealed that FreeMono is best matched by FreeMono.ttf coming from the > fonts-freefont-ttf package, followed by DejaVuSansMono.ttf. This could be the key. I _don't_ have fonts-freefont-ttf installed, and fc-match tells me: $ fc-match FreeMono DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book" Can you repro the problem if you temporarily uninstall fonts-freefont-ttf? (Or override fontconfig/Xft's resolution order to force DejaVuSansMono.ttf to be found first, but I don't know how to do that?) Regards, Branden
