Weird font problems

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James Wells · Post by **James Wells** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:42 pm

Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote:the problem vanishes for kde users that do not exclude certain small fonts from antialiasing:

I can confirm that it was drastically reduced when I did tht, but I still hade the issue in firefox / thunderbird. Additionally, this issue exists in Enlightenment as well.

Fritz Heinrichmeyer · Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:15 pm

James Wells wrote: I can confirm that it was drastically reduced when I did tht, but I still hade the issue in firefox / thunderbird. Additionally, this issue exists in Enlightenment as well.

You are right, it helped on one box at home but not at the one i am sitting now (both have ati cards).

langthang · Post by **langthang** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:57 pm

make sure you don't exclude range in /etc/fonts/local.conf as well.

asdx · Post by **asdx** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 5:50 am

I fixed that problem with this:

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emerge corefonts

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fc-cache

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X -configure

and throw the xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and edited some things like the monitor, video settings, etc and my fonts were AA.

ld50 · Post by **ld50** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 5:57 am

The font antialias problem is fixed in kde 3.5.4:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/change ... o3_5_4.php

Properly disable antialiasing by also setting the xrdb resource. See SVN commit 551202.

marsclic · Post by **marsclic** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:30 pm

I just upgraded to KDE 3.5.4, and the font problem with Firefox was actually worse. I then followed some of the tips here, and emerged gtk-engines-qt and did the export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 trick. Now Firefox works great. Other GTK apps still have the font problem. I have cairo-1.2.0 and pango-1.12.3, and since I have an nvidia card, I had to create the corresponding portage overlays to allow the emerge of the drivers.

BIG THANKS for these tips, the Firefox font problem a was major pain in the arse.

mDup · Post by **mDup** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:03 am

I also got the gtk font problem after upgrade KDE 3.5.4

I googled a bit and found a suggestion to do:
% xrdb -nocpp -merge some-file
where some-file contains:
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.hinting: 0
Xft.hintstyle: hintnone
Xft.rgba: none

This fixed the problem when GDK_USE_XFT=1 in env

-however- if another user runs a gtk app on the xserver, his app still has the font problem

mDup · Post by **mDup** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:00 am

giving everybody the same ~/.fonts.conf solves the issue

(maybe I should rather put it once in /etc/fonts/local.conf
)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>none</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintnone</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

mDup · Post by **mDup** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:56 pm

fwiw
todays cairo-1.2.0-r1 fixed the problem
I no longer need to write a deviating fonts config

drphibes · Post by **drphibes** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 3:29 am

it didn't fix mine (gtk+ menus lose AA). i still had to go back to 1.0.4.

ld50 · Post by **ld50** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:04 am

drphibes wrote:it didn't fix mine (gtk+ menus lose AA). i still had to go back to 1.0.4.

The new version of cairo only fixes the fonts disappearing problems, if you want the AA problem fixed upgrade to kde-3.5.4

mDup · Post by **mDup** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 3:33 pm

I do run latest packages so, yes, kde-3.5.4 may very well have contributed, but, I was running kde-3.5.4+cairo-1.2.0
and had problems, then came cairo-1.2.0-r1 and problems went away. But maybe another contrubution to better behaviour was
an upgrade (the same day) of gtk-engines.

Bottom line, if you run 100% unstable packages (like I do) then, at this very moment, there are no more AA and/or disappearing problems.

For other combinations I cannot speak.

drphibes · Post by **drphibes** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:31 pm

mDup wrote:I do run latest packages so, yes, kde-3.5.4 may very well have contributed, but, I was running kde-3.5.4+cairo-1.2.0
and had problems, then came cairo-1.2.0-r1 and problems went away. But maybe another contrubution to better behaviour was
an upgrade (the same day) of gtk-engines.

Bottom line, if you run 100% unstable packages (like I do) then, at this very moment, there are no more AA and/or disappearing problems.

For other combinations I cannot speak.

Is there any chance you could post the contents of a) your /etc/fonts/local.conf, if you've created one and b) the .Xresources you are using?

Fukai · Post by **Fukai** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:16 pm

Uhh... dont know if this is related but the upgrade to kde 3.5.4 make my gtk fonts look realy ugly, i solved this by turning off and on the anti-a setting in kde control center.

imbezol · Post by **imbezol** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:04 am

This problem is solved for KDE users in this thread:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-48 ... ight-.html

Decibels · Post by **Decibels** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:40 pm

Fukai wrote:Uhh... dont know if this is related but the upgrade to kde 3.5.4 make my gtk fonts look realy ugly, i solved this by turning off and on the anti-a setting in kde control center.

That fixed it on my computer also. Thanks.

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