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eWoud
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 Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:04 pm Post subject: Firefox font corruption |
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When browsing large webpages with Firefox (for example a large forum post here), and I scroll around a bit, there are (pixel-) lines missing from the lines of text.
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Some are marked in red, and if you look closely, you'll notice less visible font corruption in allmost every line. (note there's nothing wrong with the green ones)
When I focus another window, the fonts are restored
As far as I know, this problem has existed since before mozilla 1.0, and has kept me from switching away from Opera. Must be something with Gecko
Even Thunderbird seems to be infected
Has anyone else noticed this kind of font corruption besides me?
The problem is non-existant on Windows
some data:
- Firefox 1.0 pre
- X.org 6.8.0
- Everyting is rendered in the Bitstream vera fonts
- smooth scrolling is ON (but that doesn't seem to matter)
- default character set: ISO-8859-15 |
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blaster999
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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Did you set screen size in xorg.conf or pass custom dpi to startx?
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eWoud
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| blaster999 wrote: | | Did you set screen size in xorg.conf or pass custom dpi to startx? |
No.
btw, enabling/disabling Composite doesn't help, just checked |
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blaster999
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Does selecting and then deselecting the corrupted text solve the problem?
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eWoud
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| blaster999 wrote: | | Does selecting and then deselecting the corrupted text solve the problem? |
Yes. |
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blaster999
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Then I have the same problem as you - in both mozilla and firefox.
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QV
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| This happens to me too. Deselecting and reselecting fixes it. It's probably a bug in Gecko. |
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hinken
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I fixed this by: USE="-gtk2" emerge mozilla-firefox
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eWoud
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| hinken wrote: | | I fixed this by: USE="-gtk2" emerge mozilla-firefox |
Now all I get is this:
$ firefox
No running windows found
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Damasz
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| I always set the display resolution to 96 dpi (font preferences) to get rid of these missing pixel lines. You might have to restart firefox before this works. |
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eWoud
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:45 am Post subject: |
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| Damasz wrote: | | I always set the display resolution to 96 dpi (font preferences) to get rid of these missing pixel lines. You might have to restart firefox before this works. |
Woohoo! it works
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outspoken
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Damasz wrote: | | I always set the display resolution to 96 dpi (font preferences) to get rid of these missing pixel lines. You might have to restart firefox before this works. |
are you talking about stating X like this:
it sounds like you are saying there is a way to reset dpi while X is running, how does one do that? |
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eWoud
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| outspoken wrote: | | Damasz wrote: | | I always set the display resolution to 96 dpi (font preferences) to get rid of these missing pixel lines. You might have to restart firefox before this works. |
are you talking about stating X like this:
it sounds like you are saying there is a way to reset dpi while X is running, how does one do that? |
No, he's talking about firefox (Edit -> Preferences -> Fonts & colors -> Display resolution) |
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outspoken
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| ok thanks, i've set that now.. hopefully that fixes it for me too - the font clipping issue is terribly annoying. |
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