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sloppy_joes

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Registered: 2016-02-24

Posts: 4

Start menu font sometimes doesn't render correctly in KDE plasma

Hi,

I just installed arch on monday, running the most recent everything and a lot of the default settings.

The font in the start menu doesn't render correctly, it has black boxes where the font should be.
If I click somewhere else in the start menu it seems to work again though.

Not sure if this is a driver issue or a KDE/font issue. This is the only place I've seen this, all other font on my system renders correctly, so I'm inclined to think it's a KDE issue.

http://i.imgur.com/2ENJNym.png

I have a laptop with i7 4710HQ, 8GB ram, Nvidia 850M.
I'm running the most recent nvidia drivers (361.28, no bumblebee).

Last edited by x33a (2016-02-27 09:47:32)

sloppy_joes

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Registered: 2016-02-24

Posts: 4

Re: Start menu font sometimes doesn't render correctly in KDE plasma

I think I solved it.

I increased the smallest font size on the system by 1, and now it doesn't seem to happen anymore. Must've been a DPI issue.

Last edited by sloppy_joes (2016-02-27 08:22:29)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Start menu font sometimes doesn't render correctly in KDE plasma

Glad that you solved it. I have changed the image posted by you to a link. Please go through: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_code

Also, mark your thread as solved by editing the title and prepending [solved] to it.

kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 2,426

Re: Start menu font sometimes doesn't render correctly in KDE plasma

Happens here too in a systemd container (i periodically try plasma5 that way so that i can keep kde4 installed and test video acceleration/drivers issues) , dpi set to standard 96.
Do you suggest me to try 97?

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