LED clock display jumbled on virtual console

Bug #1885240 reported by Bagas Sanjaya
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htop
New
Unknown
htop (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

Invoking `htop` from virtual console (such as from Ctrl-Alt-F3) cause LED clock displayed as jumbled (that is the clock numbers does not rendered correctly as expected). In this case the numbers could have "ascender/descender" and "swash" strokes (as on typographic terms).

The bug does not occured when invoking `htop` from terminal emulators.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: htop 2.2.0-2build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-33.37-generic 5.4.34
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-33-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Jun 26 09:44:19 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-05-05 (51 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
SourcePackage: htop
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Bagas Sanjaya (bagasme) wrote :
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Bagas Sanjaya (bagasme) wrote :
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Bagas Sanjaya (bagasme) wrote :

In this vlcsnap, number 52 was rendered as having "gadzook" (which is stroke that connects a ligature). Also number 7 had descender (which extends below baseline of typograph).

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Rafael David Tinoco (rafaeldtinoco) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better.

The next step is to identify whether this bug is present in the upstream
project, introduced in Debian packaging, or introduced in Ubuntu's
modifications. If Ubuntu has not introduced the problem, we should get a bug
filed in the appropriate upstream bug tracker. Are you able to help with
this, please?

https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues

If you do end up filing a bug upstream, please link to it here. Thanks!

Changed in htop (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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Bagas Sanjaya (bagasme) wrote :
Changed in htop:
status: Unknown → New
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