• From: Hungary with love
  • Registered: 2012-02-09
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Topic: Messy font rendering

hello guys and gals!

i've noticed a strange behavior in iceweasel: the fonts randomly get "punched out", parts of them are missing. there are no problems in conky, openbox, terminal and in thunar whatsoever.
i've tried to change the browser's default font to dejavu sans 16, and the allow sites to choose their font disabled. if i zoom in or out, different parts of the letters appear and disappear.

thoughts, anyone?

sample piccy:
http://ompldr.org/tY3Ixcg
edit: here's a shot of this topic
http://ompldr.org/tY3Ixdg

Last edited by arelim (2012-02-11 00:08:56)

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Re: Messy font rendering

Random babblings on it. I don't really mess w that part of mozilla's stuff, never had problems with the defaults, shrugs.


Try clearing EVERYTHING in the browser .. Tools>Clear recent history. Then in terminal ...

fc-cache -fv

Or if ya really wanna be hardcore about it. Transfer the fonts you want to your /home directory. System fonts are found in /usr/share/fonts or thereabouts. When you open your /home with thunar up at the top click on View, then show hidden folders and you'll see a folder called .fonts. Put the fonts you want there then run the above command.



(CB)

PS, Not that matters, your links aren't working here.

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-02-09 21:05:43)

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !) tongue
  • From: Hungary with love
  • Registered: 2012-02-09
  • Posts: 11

Re: Messy font rendering

tried fc-cache, but it didn't work.
did a quick backup and a clean install to check up on fonts.
the problem still exists, but now it's in every part os the system.
check the screencrop:
http://ompldr.org/tY3Ixdw
the s letters are clearly wonky, but in iceweasel the fonts are just fine.

random babblings, btw, cbiz, my links works just fine.  wink

Last edited by arelim (2012-02-11 00:09:38)

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Re: Messy font rendering

Hi arelim and welcome! I also had problems viewing the screenshots until I used a proxy so maybe you could rehost them somewhere like imgurl and post thumbnail links back in the thread so we can all see them.

I haven't seen anything quite like that before, but with what you described with your first post and the later fresh install being worse I'm wondering if it's an install/setup issue. Maybe a locale problem or *possibly* a graphics rendering problem, but with the latter I don't know the incorrect characters would be consistent like they are (in some cases it looks like it's trying to substitute- like on "l" but that doesn't really explain the holes in "p" and "s").

But if you can rehost 'em up maybe someone will recognize what's actually going on.

  • From: Hungary with love
  • Registered: 2012-02-09
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Re: Messy font rendering

rehosted, thank you kindly.
i never thought noob.hu is region locked, that's why i used it instead of omp. hmm

currently i'm having holes in k-s and in small and capital b-s.

Last edited by arelim (2012-02-11 00:13:36)

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Re: Messy font rendering

Cool and thanks! Now we can get more eyes on the problem! big_smile

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  • Registered: 2012-02-09
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Re: Messy font rendering

partly solved: (or stepped around the problem)
enabled bitmap fonts and set all fonts to snap ce in lxappearance, in obconfig and in qtconfig. installed iron in place of iceweasel (no x-www-browser editing, just put 

/usr/share/iron/iron

in rc.xml and in openbox menu.

now the fonts won't change size to 18px when i rotate the screen with xrandr.

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  • Registered: 2012-02-17
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Re: Messy font rendering

I have the exact same problem but I am still using Linux MInt(10) just thinking of moving to #!
I posted questions on the forums but never solved the problem - I just live with it!!

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Re: Messy font rendering

ChickenPie4Tea wrote:

I have the exact same problem but I am still using Linux MInt(10) just thinking of moving to #!
I posted questions on the forums but never solved the problem - I just live with it!!

what hardware are you using?
i have a hunch it has something to do with my intel onboard vga. using asus eee pc 900.

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