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firippusan

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Registered: 2012-10-13

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pixelated fonts in E17 and finalTerm (independently)

Hi, I played around installing E17, and finalterm (under xfce4) independently,
And encountered the same fonts issue: some characters get pixelated (see attached pic of finalterm under xfce4).
Same issue appeared when I tried E17, the icon fonts and terminology fonts were pixelated the same way.

Changing the fonts in preferences (to fonts already installed) didn't remove the problem.

screenshot:
http://ctrlv.in/340602
http://ctrlv.in/340603

Last edited by firippusan (2014-06-02 11:01:24)

Trilby

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Re: pixelated fonts in E17 and finalTerm (independently)

This looks like it might be a graphics card / driver issue.  Can you post information about those?  Specifically, the output of the following may be useful:

lspci -vnn | grep -i vga
pacman -Qs xf86-video

If you've done anything particular to set these up that might be important too (e.g., modifying xorg.conf files, or running a configuration tool included with any graphics drivers).

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firippusan

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Registered: 2012-10-13

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Re: pixelated fonts in E17 and finalTerm (independently)

[archie@oldpc ~]$ lspci -vnn | grep -i vga
lspci: Unable to load libkmod resources: error -12
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS600M [Radeon Xpress 1250] [1002:7942] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
[archie@oldpc ~]$ pacman -Qs xf86-video
local/xf86-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org ati video driver

Don't remember doing anything particular when I set them up.

Last edited by firippusan (2014-06-02 14:09:09)

Trilby

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Re: pixelated fonts in E17 and finalTerm (independently)

Thanks - please use code tags when posting output.

The open source ATI driver may be one of the less likely suspects for such an issue - the closed-source drivers, particularly nvidia, are sometimes known to lead to issues like this.  So while I'd not completely rule out graphics card/driver issues, it may be able to go on the back burner for a bit while other options are explored.

The libkmod error in that output concerns me though.  I'm not yet sure if it is relevant for this issue, but it definitely shouldn't be there.  Perhaps you could try searching for similar error messages, and I'll do the same if I get some time today.

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firippusan

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Registered: 2012-10-13

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Re: pixelated fonts in E17 and finalTerm (independently)

An error message I get while running finalterm (I googled it with fonts but didn't find anything relevant)

(finalterm:912): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_reparent: assertion 'priv->parent != NULL' failed