https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110214
--- Comment #79 from Diego Viola diego.viola@gmail.com --- I found that a workaround for this issue is to add the following to my Xresources:
XTerm.vt100.scaleHeight: 0.9
The default is 1.0 (which creates the problem), a value of 1.5 also makes it work (although fonts look too wide then).
I found this information here:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?52165 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880407
Which might indicate this being a freetype problem?