[xmonad] Invisible cursor with XFT font in Prompt

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Mon Mar 3 14:22:52 EST 2008


xmonad:
> I recently enabled XFT support in XMonadContrib. When using
> a TrueType font, the cursor in prompts is invisible. It
> seems to be printing the character under the cursor with
> bgColor as both the forground and background (I was able to
> see the the edge of an “f” under the cursor overwriting the
> edge of a preceeding “d”, so I know that it is being drawn).
> 
> Also, the visual length of the string changes as the cursor
> moves. While scrolling through the string, the portion after
> the cursor wiggles left and right by a few pixels. When the
> cursor reaches the beginning of the line, the length
> shortens much more.

Could you file a bug report for this please?


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