Restore my previous font [before update]

Question

I just updated from 6.0.9 to wheezy 7.4, rebooted and everything is working alright so far, but my font (not system fixed though) - for example used in rxvt/urxvt - now is wider: it's gotten additional pixels in spaces between words and symbols. Looks like this: h

Actually it's not that obvious in that picture, but I hope you get the point. My ~/.fonts.conf has in it:

<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
<const>lcddefault</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

I've tried different options in dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config but nothing really helped.

Any hint what to do / how to resolve the issue? I'm using Windowmaker as my graphical shell btw. Thanks.

Answer 1

Figured out what the problem was - it only appeared in urxvt-unicode.

Urxvt can have problems with the spacings of some fonts (eg Terminus), an option has been introduced in the latest version (9.07)

It's fixed with URxvt*letterSpace: -1 in ~/.Xdefaults