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Why are xterm fonts displaying all characters double-wide when running xterm under arch linux in a virtual machine under VirtualBox using XQuartz in Mac OS X?



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Here are my resources for xterm:



arch$ xrdb -query | grep -i xterm
XTerm*deleteIsDEL: true
XTerm*backarrowKeyIsErase: true
XTerm*faceName: foobar
XTerm*faceSize: 10.0
XTerm*renderFont: true
XTerm*utf8Title: true
XTerm*utf8: always
XTerm*iconName: terminal
XTerm*JumpScroll: on
XTerm*ScrollBar: off
XTerm*TitleBar: on
XTerm*utmpInhibit: on
XTerm*ttyModes: kill ^X erase ^?
XTerm*visualBell: off
XTerm*eightBitInput: on
XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
XTerm*geometry: 128x40









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    Why are xterm fonts displaying all characters double-wide when running xterm under arch linux in a virtual machine under VirtualBox using XQuartz in Mac OS X?



    Here is a screen shot:



    enter image description here



    Here are my resources for xterm:



    arch$ xrdb -query | grep -i xterm
    XTerm*deleteIsDEL: true
    XTerm*backarrowKeyIsErase: true
    XTerm*faceName: foobar
    XTerm*faceSize: 10.0
    XTerm*renderFont: true
    XTerm*utf8Title: true
    XTerm*utf8: always
    XTerm*iconName: terminal
    XTerm*JumpScroll: on
    XTerm*ScrollBar: off
    XTerm*TitleBar: on
    XTerm*utmpInhibit: on
    XTerm*ttyModes: kill ^X erase ^?
    XTerm*visualBell: off
    XTerm*eightBitInput: on
    XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
    XTerm*geometry: 128x40









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      Why are xterm fonts displaying all characters double-wide when running xterm under arch linux in a virtual machine under VirtualBox using XQuartz in Mac OS X?



      Here is a screen shot:



      enter image description here



      Here are my resources for xterm:



      arch$ xrdb -query | grep -i xterm
      XTerm*deleteIsDEL: true
      XTerm*backarrowKeyIsErase: true
      XTerm*faceName: foobar
      XTerm*faceSize: 10.0
      XTerm*renderFont: true
      XTerm*utf8Title: true
      XTerm*utf8: always
      XTerm*iconName: terminal
      XTerm*JumpScroll: on
      XTerm*ScrollBar: off
      XTerm*TitleBar: on
      XTerm*utmpInhibit: on
      XTerm*ttyModes: kill ^X erase ^?
      XTerm*visualBell: off
      XTerm*eightBitInput: on
      XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
      XTerm*geometry: 128x40









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      Why are xterm fonts displaying all characters double-wide when running xterm under arch linux in a virtual machine under VirtualBox using XQuartz in Mac OS X?



      Here is a screen shot:



      enter image description here



      Here are my resources for xterm:



      arch$ xrdb -query | grep -i xterm
      XTerm*deleteIsDEL: true
      XTerm*backarrowKeyIsErase: true
      XTerm*faceName: foobar
      XTerm*faceSize: 10.0
      XTerm*renderFont: true
      XTerm*utf8Title: true
      XTerm*utf8: always
      XTerm*iconName: terminal
      XTerm*JumpScroll: on
      XTerm*ScrollBar: off
      XTerm*TitleBar: on
      XTerm*utmpInhibit: on
      XTerm*ttyModes: kill ^X erase ^?
      XTerm*visualBell: off
      XTerm*eightBitInput: on
      XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
      XTerm*geometry: 128x40






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