http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4807
Summary: Putty unusable until font changed or Courier New installed. Font mapping not respecing fixed-width attribute? Product: Wine Version: 0.9.9. Platform: Other URL: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ OS/Version: other Status: NEW Keywords: download Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-misc AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com
As part of my dogfood testing, I'm trying to live with Putty on wine instead of using windows ssh.
putty's default font settings are unusable with Wine's default fonts. Particular problems are the 'm' and 'w' glyphs, which Putty seems to think are half as wide as they really are; when you type 'm' at the putty username prompt, it looks as if you typed 'n' because the block cursor obscures the right half of the glyph.
To repeat: 0. Wipe out ~/.wine as usual when testing new apps 1. install putty-0.58, e.g. by running http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty-0.58-installer.exe 2. try logging in to localhost, and typing the letters of the alphabet. Observe that 'm' and 'w' run over the cell width.
The workaround is either a) in putty, click on Window / Appearance / Font Settings / Change, and pick a font that is installed instead of the default Courier New or b) install courier font from http://corefonts.sf.net, e.g. by running http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/courie32.exe
Neither of these should really be needed, should they? Is Wine mapping Courier New to a variable-width font? That'd be just plain wrong...