[SOLVED] Ugly fonts in KDE plamoids

fettouhi · 2012-01-29 09:31:08

I'm running KDE 4.8 on my Arch 64 box and I've had for a while now ugly fonts in all the plasma widgets I'm running. All the other fonts look nice and smooth in all other places, eg. GTK and QT apps etc. but plasma widget fonts aren't as smooth for some reason. I'm using the infinality patches with the "UBUNTU" setting currently. Any heads up on would be nice...

Many Thanks

Last edited by fettouhi (2012-02-22 17:37:04)

David Batson · 2012-01-29 11:56:44

Don't know if this helps or not.
http://www.infinality.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=183

fettouhi · 2012-01-29 14:23:34

Thanks for the link but this is not what I'm looking for. I am trying to figure out why the font in my plasma widgets looks like it isn't anti-aliased but it looks fine and smooth everywhere else.

PWheelsner · 2012-01-29 22:19:26

Same here for some time...google searches seem to report its not an arch specific issue...afraid I don't have a solution...its really rather aggrivating!

syms · 2012-01-30 12:49:25

That is because qt 4.8 uses raster graphics system by default. Theres apparently some bug in qt or kde that in some places of plasma font isnt antialiased when used raster graphics system. You could just try to open krunner type kquitapp plasma-desktop and then reopen krunner and type plasma-desktop --graphicssystem native and see if it will help.

fettouhi · 2012-01-30 13:21:16

syms wrote:

That is because qt 4.8 uses raster graphics system by default. Theres apparently some bug in qt or kde that in some places of plasma font isnt antialiased when used raster graphics system. You could just try to open krunner type kquitapp plasma-desktop and then reopen krunner and type plasma-desktop --graphicssystem native and see if it will help.

That does help. Is there a way to make the change permanent or do you have a link to that bug?

kokoko3k · 2012-01-30 15:33:18

QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=native may help, add it to /etc/environment for a system wide setting
or edit the exec line /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop by adding --graphicssystem native

Last edited by kokoko3k (2012-01-30 15:34:00)

syms · 2012-01-30 18:10:23

kokoko3k wrote:

QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=native may help, add it to /etc/environment for a system wide setting
or edit the exec line /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop by adding --graphicssystem native

Dont use the first advice, because you will lose the advantages of raster system system wide. Raster system is faster than native, so apps are snappier with it. The second method is better

Last edited by syms (2012-01-30 18:12:21)

fettouhi · 2012-01-30 22:57:41

Thanks for the advice. I installed this package from AUR

kcm-qt-graphicssystem

and went into system settings and set QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM to X11/XRender. Haven't really noticed any slower apps at the moment.

Arch Linux

#1 2012-01-29 09:31:08

[SOLVED] Ugly fonts in KDE plamoids

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