gnome-terminal kerning problem after FC6 upgrade

[Tim]

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 17:10 -0500, fedora-list at epperson.homelinux.net wrote:
> Did a yum update to FC6 from FC5 on my Latitude D600 laptop, and the fonts
> got all weird.  My Squirrelmail page had big blocky serifed fonts, for
> instance, and saw other similar things in Firefox elsewhere.  Restored
> /etc/fonts from FC5 and got rid of that issue, but I still have very
> strange kerning in gnome-terminal.  For instance, when I type an "mv"
> command, it looks more like "nv", and in a "ls" listing, some file names
> are squashed like that, others are oddly spaced out. 

I haven't done an update, mine was a fresh install, but the first thing
that springs to mind is:  Are you using a font that's provided with FC6?
I suppose you could have been set to use some other font, and it's
trying to use what it thinks is an equivelent, but doesn't quite fit the
task.

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 important to the thread.)

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