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Unreadable Terminal - Font Spacing/Styling Issue #54

Closed psiryan closed 2 years ago

psiryan commented 2 years ago

Describe the bug Terminal font spacing is too narrow making the terminal unreadable.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/relational-database/
  2. Select Mario Database from the course list
  3. Click on 'Run with CodeAlly' button
  4. When CodeRoad launches, open new terminal (I use Ctrl+` hotkey)
  5. See issue

Expected behavior Expecting to see a clear and readable terminal font that is properly spaced.

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Additional context This happened multiple times for me during the Boiler Plate course; somehow it seemed to resolve itself after a few days, but now I see the issue again on the Mario Database course. Presumably this will/can/has happened for other people on other courses.

If the text is highlighted the issue goes away: image

However it is not desirable to have to highlight my terminal IO just to be able to read it.

ShaunSHamilton commented 2 years ago

This is a common bug I have seen in applications that use xterm. As CodeAlly is running a flavour of VSCode, I assume that is the culprit.

I am not sure much can be done about this.

AdamZaczek commented 2 years ago

Thank you for reporting @psiryan. That's right @ShaunSHamilton. We don't control the xterm directly and styling issues happen occasionally. Source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+xterm. We need to wait for the fixes on the xterm/vscode side.