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..., a gdk bug, but is due to a permutation in > the arguments of gdk_string_extents in GTK_MetricInfo > (file src/gnome/devGTK.c). It currently reads > > gdk_string_extents(gtkd->font, tmp, > &lbearing, &rbearing, > &iascent, &idescent, &iwidth); > > but should be > > gdk_string_extents(gtkd->font, tmp, > &lbearing, &rbearing, > &iwidth, &iascent, &idescent); > Great, thanks, that solves it. Now I was looking for...

A little more followup. The gtk() device uses gdk_string_width to find the character extents. That seems undocumented anywhere in the gtk+ sources. It is returning the maximal descent for the font for all input strings on my system. Looking at the current gtk+-1.2.7 sources it appears to call XTextExtents, and that _should_ give the string descent. Since gdk fonts are private opaque structures