Weird hinting problem for block characters about bar HOT 10 OPEN

Trying to do specify fonts like this:

Literation Mono Powerline:pixelsize=13:hintstyle=hintnone:antialias=false:rgb=none:hinting=none

doesn't seem to help. (I believe these options don't work in this context...)

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Confirmed that disabling antialias in font config removes this issue. However, it screws ups every other font and every other character. Is it possible to specify antialias settings in lemonbar's -f?

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I was able to reproduce it using lcdfilter.
Top is lcdfilter = lcdnone
Bottom is lcdfilter = lcddefault

Is it possible to specify antialias settings in lemonbar's -f?

I dont think so.

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Yeah, but after disabling it system-wide, everything looks like this:

Making an exception using <test/> in font config for one font isn't greatest either.

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I will look into how urxvt handles that

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Please note that urxvt uses .Xresources which is separate from font config. However, I can see the blocks render just fine also in Firefox, and Firefox does use font config - otherwise I wouldn't be able to obtain the screenshot above (which happened after changing font config).

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If I change the call to XftDrawString16 to draw more than just one character at a time, it works fine. Perhaps there's something wrong with "gluing" the characters?
Anyway, a quick fix would be to change draw_char and ifs before to a while that collects all consecutive UTF8/ASCII characters that do not belong to any %{Command}, and then pass whole such string to XftDrawString16.

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Is there a fix coming for this?

FWIW, a workaround for this is to use a bitmap font to draw the box characters, using %{T}. Bitmap fonts seem to render fine.

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Well #12 fixes this. I would really like to integrate it and the ucs branch into the main branch, however I am not using lemombar anymore and did not invest much time into it over the last year.

Do you think people use the xft-fork to render bitmap fonts? Would be a huge simplification to just remove the bitmap code.

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#12 would probably suffice for my use case, which is just generating simple blocks.

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