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geany package

underscore not shown in geany editor window

Bug #1872391 reported by Thomas Wagner on 2020-04-13

This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	geany (Fedora)	Unknown	Unknown	redhat-bugs #1756752
	geany (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

In Xubuntu 20.04 beta the underscore is not shown in the editor window. The standard font is Monospace Regular, size 10.

Workaround:
Use "Liberation Mono Regular" font or increase the default editor font size to 16 in Geany Interface preferences.

https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2466#issuecomment-610710741

BTW. font selector dialog may become unresponsive when you type font name.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: geany 1.36-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-21.25-generic 5.4.27
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu26
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Apr 13 05:14:01 2020
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/geany
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-07 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Beta amd64 (20200402)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_DE
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: geany
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Thomas Wagner (hirschbeutel) wrote on 2020-04-13:

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-05-12:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in geany (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Jarno Suni (jarnos) on 2020-05-12

description:

updated

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Jarno Suni (jarnos) wrote on 2020-07-12:

As for https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2466#issuecomment-610710741 could the default line_height be changed in the package?

description:

updated

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Richard Merren (richard-merren) wrote on 2020-07-16:

I am seeing this same problem, and a workaround is to use Liberation Mono Regular font. For whatever design reason, the underscores are visible in Geany with this font. Not an ideal solution, but it is a workaround that lets you keep using Geany.

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Paulo S. P. SIlveira (pspsilveira) wrote on 2021-06-23:

Thanks Richard Merren. This workaround solved my problem and I can continue to use Geany (still, since the bug remains, many users are possibly abandoning this software).

For other users with the same problem, you can change Editor font following
Edit -> Preferences -> Interface
and, then, change Fonts: Editor to Liberation Mono Regular

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Jarno Suni (jarnos) wrote on 2021-10-10:

The bug is in Scintilla widget:
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2502#issuecomment-939463462
Sadly, Ubuntu has an old version of it.