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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:49 am    Post subject: "subpixel rendering broken in electron with freetype &g Reply with quote

hi all, i not undesntand what thing happen whith fonts on de editor's part of this program in my plasma gentoo
on antergos fonts are ok.
any ideas?

https://i.imgur.com/8tNUmCD.png

https://i.imgur.com/SeNWRnh.png

Code:
 ~ $ eselect fontconfig list
Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled):
  [1]   10-autohint.conf
  [2]   10-hinting-full.conf
  [3]   10-hinting-medium.conf
  [4]   10-hinting-none.conf
  [5]   10-hinting-slight.conf
  [6]   10-no-sub-pixel.conf
  [7]   10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
  [8]   10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
  [9]   10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf *
  [10]  10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
  [11]  10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
  [12]  10-unhinted.conf
  [13]  11-lcdfilter-default.conf *
  [14]  11-lcdfilter-legacy.conf
  [15]  11-lcdfilter-light.conf
  [16]  20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf *
  [17]  20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf *
  [18]  20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf *
  [19]  20-unhint-small-vera.conf *
  [20]  25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
  [21]  30-metric-aliases.conf *
  [22]  40-nonlatin.conf *
  [23]  45-generic.conf *
  [24]  45-latin.conf *
  [25]  49-sansserif.conf *
  [26]  50-user.conf *
  [27]  51-local.conf *
  [28]  57-dejavu-sans.conf *
  [29]  57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf *
  [30]  57-dejavu-serif.conf *
  [31]  59-google-droid-sans.conf *
  [32]  59-google-droid-sans-mono.conf *
  [33]  59-google-droid-serif.conf *
  [34]  60-generic.conf *
  [35]  60-latin.conf *
  [36]  60-liberation.conf *
  [37]  62-croscore-arimo.conf *
  [38]  62-croscore-cousine.conf *
  [39]  62-croscore-symbolneu.conf *
  [40]  62-croscore-tinos.conf *
  [41]  65-fonts-persian.conf *
  [42]  65-khmer.conf
  [43]  65-nonlatin.conf *
  [44]  69-unifont.conf *
  [45]  70-no-bitmaps.conf *
  [46]  70-yes-bitmaps.conf
  [47]  80-delicious.conf *
  [48]  90-roboto-regular.conf *
  [49]  90-synthetic.conf *

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 8:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's because it's an outdated electron app, using a broken bundled copy of chromium that doesn't work correctly with newer versions of freetype.

bug 631502
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ant P. wrote:
It's because it's an outdated electron app, using a broken bundled copy of chromium that doesn't work correctly with newer versions of freetype.

bug 631502


ah ok that is the problem hehe.

does electron app use chromium? i had no idea about this.

thanks :o
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They all do, that's what electron is - just a web browser with the controls removed.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Portage & Programming to Unsupported Software.

Since 'Visual Studio Code' can't be found in Portage, this fits better here.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 6:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The title is misleading. This isn't a problem with "Visual Studio Code," but rather a bug in electron. The electron issue page is here (note that there doesn't seem to have been any activity on this since January).

I'd suggest OP change the title so others (myself included) can find this better. On my system, this affects the app version of Discord, and also the atom text editor.

That issue page suggests a patch is upstream; is there any way to move that patch into portage? Or manually patch the relevant ebuild?

Cheers,

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i am moved to sublime text :) sorry for the tittle i am not fluence in english.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what I mean is to change the title to something like "subpixel rendering broken in electron with freetype >2.8", since that's what the actual problem is. Visual Studio is just an innocent bystander.

I'm installing electron from the atom layman overlay; hopefully that will fix the issue for me. I'll report back in a bit.

Cheers,

EE
update: the overlay sorta fixed freetype rendering, but not really. More problematic, though, is that atom is busted. I'll post to the github page for that, though, and not hijack this thread.
update2: check that, atom's fine, and text rendering there is much nicer looking. so the atom overlay, with newer electron than portage main, might help you as well.
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