mintty
font alignment changed in 3.7.6?
I just upgraded from 3.7.4 to 3.7.6, and noticed that my fancy prompts and tmux/vim themes all draw this particular character combination with an extra (ugly) spacing after the 'left opening bow' char (<> 57526, Hex e0b6, Octal 160266)
Left side joints look tighter, although I get the impression they're a bit warped as well (the half circle looking bumped up a bit)
I can make it disappear by going to fontheight=10, but that is not really what I want, and I get the impression it is still jaggy, and slightly warped
My config file is this `# To use common configuration in %APPDATA%\mintty, simply remove this file
these are set in theme file
#ForegroundColour=179,186,187 #BackgroundColour=39,62,38 #CursorColour=191,255,0 ThemeFile=selenized.dark Transparency=low OpaqueWhenFocused=yes CursorType=block FontHeight=9 CopyAsRTF=no RightClickAction=paste Columns=241 Rows=68 PgUpDnScroll=yes Language=@ Term=xterm-256color BellType=-1 BellFile=ambient-drop Locale=en_US DeleteSendsDEL=no SelectionShowSize=0 Font=MesloLGM Nerd Font Mono Charset=UTF-8 AllowSetSelection=yes CopyAsHTML=no BackspaceSendsBS=no EmojiPlacement=stretch ElasticMouse=yes `
Probably a silly 1st world problem, but thank you for letting me know your thoughts and any workarounds!
Self-drawing of Powerline symbols had been implemented in mintty for a while but accidentally not ensabled, so still they were shown only if you use a font that has them. I "fixed" this in 3.7.6 so Powerline symbols are always available, but it turns out the self-drawing algorithm is not perfect. I will look into this.
OK, thanks! In the meantime, is there a way I can force the old behaviour (drawing from font), maybe with a FontChoice Private config, and an explicit reference to my nerd font?
- pure self-interest :-) Make it work again while you take the time to look into your code;
- it would give me a reason to better look into font config in mintty;
- hypothetical and possibly far fetched: maybe some fonts will have variants of Powerline glyphs that users prefer to use, rather than the self-drawn versions.
Another observation, maybe it helps:
it looks OK:
- on my laptop's high res (2496x1664, 150% scaling) screen, when wsltty is fully on that screen;
- on an external (lower resolution, 100% scaling) monitor, when wsltty is half on the internal screen, and half on the external monitor (because of resolution difference, the part on the external monitor looks zoomed in);
It looks bad (as reported) when wsltty is completely on the external monitor.
If I set the scaling of the external monitor to 125% or 150% (matching the laptop screen) it also looks OK on the external monitor (but obviously way too big)
Did you upgrade to wsltty 3.7.6? I actually forgot to close this issue as there is a fix now available.
Did you upgrade to wsltty 3.7.6? I actually forgot to close this issue as there is a fix now available.
yes - I actually started to see it after I upgraded to 3.7.6 (you made me doubt, but that's what in the original description :-)). 3.7.4 (and everything before) was fine.
Ah, right, I guess I confused issues in my question. I actually fixed this one (see above), after 3.7.6.