Konsole progressive space around prompt as scrolls to right

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Hello.
I’ve been using the Konsole for my terminal needs for a while now and like it. After the update to F40 from F39 it has been acting a bit weird. One thing I wish to ask about, which affects the default read-only profile the same as other profiles, is that if I open a file with long lines in nano, the cursor(block) looks ok when to the far left. If I hold down right arrow to scroll it to the right the visual space between it and the preceding character increases gradually, to become quite noticable.

It doesn’t happen in other terminal emulators.

Scrolled almost to the leftest edge:
scrolled_to_the_left_konsole

scrolled to near the right edge:
scrolled_to_the_right

It’s a bit tough to google (at least I haven’t had much luck) but maychance one of the sharp swords herearound have an idea?

Edit. Investigations show that the issue is isolated to one user (my primary user, this system hasn’t had a second user).
Have checked for user konsole files:

  - /home/nameUser/.config/konsolerc
   - /home/nameUser/.local/share/konsole
   - /home/nameUser/.local/share/kxmlgui5/konsole/

were mentioned, where the first is a file and the next two directories. I have deleted the file and contents of the directories and the issue persists. There were bits in ~/.cache as well that were removed.

Removing konsole and installing it anew didn’t make a difference but I didn’t think it would as the issue isn’t present in a new user account.

When I scroll to the right along a long line in nano the text moves a bit and that’s when the space is created. It does not move in the Konsole in another user on the same system and neither does it in other terminal emulators as mentioned.

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I am not clear on what the visual glitch is that you are trying to point out.
Both images seem correct to me. What am I missing?

Never does on a well design system…

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In the second image there is no actual space between the ‘wo’ and the ‘ff2’. It’s a file extension, name, should look like the one below. if ‘preload’ had been toward the end of a line near the right edge of the display it would have read “pr eload”.

The glitch is more obvious in an animation.

I don’t know what you mean by your second comment.

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Reinstalling will not change anything.is what I am saying.
All the config is somewhere in $HOME not in the system directores.

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Two things you could try.
Change the font size. Change the font.
Does that change the way the text is drawn and fix the issue?

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I deleted the /home/nameUser/.config/konsole/ contents too, searched for anything called “konsole” under the home folder.

And yes, it definitely is a user profile issue since it doesn’t affect a new user on the same sys.

But Barry: Thanks! As mentioned the issue affects the default read-only profile, but if I create a new profile, based on it, and change the font from the default Noto sans Mono (called Monospace in the selector) to Dejavu Sans mono (called that in the selector) the issue is gone.

Hmm. Now the Konsole is having difficulties downloading themes (as they are gone from the user konsole settings purge), I’ll see where I go from here, but definitely interesting to see that the weird graphical issue (pretty annoying) affected the default font.

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Please report as a bug so someone has a chance of looking into why this happened.

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I shall at least look into it but won’t promise anything. I don’t know how to reproduce it or have seen any indication that anyone else has been affected. Not stellar grounds for a bug report it seems to me.