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BlackSwan

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From: Toronto, ON, Canada

Registered: 2009-05-15

Posts: 6

[WORKAROUND] Random characters missing in KDE Plasma

I've just installed KDE, and Plasma components are missing random characters. The issue seems to effect Plasma elements only, not all KDE applications: you can see in the screenshot that the panel, app launcher and System Settings are messed up, but Dolphin looks fine. It's not a font issue, because any given character (capital "K," lowercase "n," etc.) appears sometimes; just to be sure, I changed the font from Noto to Liberation, but that didn't help. I installed the LXQt desktop to see if there was a more general problem with X or Qt, but everything looks fine there.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Last edited by BlackSwan (2021-04-24 14:17:17)

BlackSwan

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From: Toronto, ON, Canada

Registered: 2009-05-15

Posts: 6

Re: [WORKAROUND] Random characters missing in KDE Plasma

So I've found a workable solution. My Arch installation is actually a Virtualbox guest, and turning off 3d acceleration fixes the issue. Of course, I really wouldn't mind having 3D acceleration! Any thoughts? I'm using the VMSVGA graphics controller in my Virtualbox settings, and the xf86-video-vmware driver.

codehead

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Registered: 2023-12-15

Posts: 1

Re: [WORKAROUND] Random characters missing in KDE Plasma

Thanks for the workaround. I had the same problem running KDE in Debian 12 under VirtualBox so this issue is definitely not Arch-specific, but this is the only relevant result I got from Google. Will try other video device/3D acceleration/antialiasing combinations and report my findings if any.