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[Erik Wool <782855@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ha!  Sure enough, the quickest way to get a bug to manifest is to deny
its existence.  It is NOT fixed globally in Oneiric.  I made 2 useage
changes in the past few weeks that contributed to my not noticing any
flaws: 1) switched primary browser from Firefox to Chrome, and 2)
switched terminator shell's font from "Monospace 8pt" to "Ubuntu Mono
8pt".  I just changed the terminator font back a day or two ago and yep,
it's wrecked again.

Observations:

- bug manifests in terminator shell with "Monospace 8pt" font, but not
with "Ubuntu Mono" at any size. After changing font sizes and faces for
a while, the bug is completely gone from the font chooser, and does not
appear in the shell after closing prefs --- buuuuut, after switching to
another app for a while the font is once again damaged in a novel way.
This happens with "Monospace" only, as far as I can see.

- bug does not manifest in Chrome 14.0.835.186 at all. (see zooming note
below)

- bug manifests in Firefox 7.0.1 -- nb. compared same page [
http://getfirebug.com/firstrun#Firebug%201.8.4] in both firefox and
chrome.

- bug manifests in Thunderbird 7.0.1 in html emails, but NOT in message
lists, menus, etc.

- browser view zooming causes what? font re-rendering? In Firefox,
zooming in and out repeatedly with ctl+, ctl- caused the bug to appear
*almost* at random.  Sometimes the fonts were damaged in the same way,
but after a few passes the damage changed location, moving from letter
to letter and line to line.  No *pattern* of change was observed, per
se.  The same actions in Chrome did not provoke any damaged fonts to
appear, even using the same page as with Firefox.

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  missing pixels (horizontal lines) in font rendering

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