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daulpavis

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Registered: 2013-10-10

Posts: 3

Font rendering glitches

Hi,

I am getting occasional font rendering glitches.

It appears to affect fonts in any applications, occasionally a single character will be completely messed up. see attached image.

It appears to happen when I have an lcdfilter entry in my font config. But without this fonts don't look very good.

lcdfilter = lcddefault or lcdlight give the problem
lcdfilter = lcdnone or lcdlegacy are okay

I tried installing freetype2-infinality and fontconfig-infinality as a long shot, but this didn't help.

Anyone have any idea what might be causing this, and how to fix?

Thanks

P.S. I'm sorry if this post isn't perfectly categorised.

Last edited by daulpavis (2013-10-10 09:22:38)

tpfkanep

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From: South Africa

Registered: 2009-12-15

Posts: 121

Re: Font rendering glitches

I had to resort to downgrading xf86-video-intel (currently running 2.21.10-2) after trying countless fontconfig options.

daulpavis

Member

Registered: 2013-10-10

Posts: 3

Re: Font rendering glitches

Thanks. That worked.

I found from the versions I had 2.21.12-1 was also good. 2.21.14-2 was the next version which was bad.

For reference the most up to date version at the time, which I was originally using, is 2.21.15-1.

If I have some time I'll try to dig into this one a little deeper.