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cdown

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From: London, England

Registered: 2013-02-09

Posts: 55

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Font corruption in GTK apps only

For a day or so now I have been seeing quite bad font corruption in GTK apps -- gtk-demo and Chromium both have this problem. QT apps are not affected. Forcing a font cache rebuild with `sudo fc-cache -rf` did not help the situation, and neither did reinstalling the affected fonts.

I did not upgrade or install any packages between the font rendering being fine, and it being corrupted (see the screenshot).

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/pF39tvm.png

Any ideas?

Last edited by cdown (2014-03-15 00:39:40)

vortex59

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From: Timisoara, Romania

Registered: 2011-01-15

Posts: 10

Re: Font corruption in GTK apps only

Try to delete the file font.conf from your home folder and logout/login (or restart).

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ConnorBehan

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From: Long Island NY

Registered: 2007-07-05

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Re: Font corruption in GTK apps only

I've seen corruption like this with a lot of cairo apps because the text to be rendered is sent to a buggy EXA driver. Does text look better if you turn off EXA acceleration?

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