Part of characters missing (work around)

[Jim Bevier]

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>From: "Karel Volný" <kvolny at redhat.com>
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>Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 2:34 AM
>Subject: Re: Part of characters missing
>Hi,

>On Tuesday 12 of October 2010 01:12:20 Jim Bevier wrote:
>> JB
>>
>> The console terminal (<ctrl><alt><F2>) works fine.
>>
>> >From KDE:
>> The xterm terminal works fine.
>> The konsole terminal is the one with the problem.  Right click
>> on screen, select konsole, type "ls /".
>>
>> >From GNOME:
>> The XTerm termonal works fine.
>> The GNOME Terminal works fine.
>> The konsole terminal trims last char sometimes.  Type "ls /".
>>
>> I think something to do with konsole character printing.
>
>if only konsole is affected, I believe your problem has to do
>something with this bug:
>https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226308
>
>K.
>
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I reviewed the bug specified and it for sure seems to be the problem I have 
with konsole.  It seems to be a low level Qt font handling bug and KDE 4.? 
uses bold/bright together that shows up the problem.  I have two work 
arounds for Fedora 14 that we can use until this is fixed.

1.  Unhandy, but works.  When using "ls" command, specify "--color=never" as 
one of the parameters.  This removes bold/bright and displays text 
correctly.

2. Better fix.  In the konsole, select "Settings" on the toolbar.  Select 
"Configure Profiles" from the drop down list.  Select "Edit Profile" in the 
'Manage Profiles' dialog box.  In the 'Edit Profile "Shell"' dialog box, 
select the "Appearance" tab.  Uncheck the 'Draw intense colors in bold font" 
option.  Select "OK" and then select "OK".  The problem will be fixed 
immediately in all konsoles.

Maybe the intense option can be unselected by default until this error is 
corrected upstream.

Jim