https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842568
--- Comment #12 from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz arekm@maven.pl --- Under KDE konsole when writting bunch of "ddddddddd" I'm getting very bad spacing, too (with liberation 2.0; in latest 1.7 there is no such problem). Not sure if this is exactly the same issue though.