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liviubiur

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Re: Ugly font rendering. Wrong dimensions detected by xdpyinfo and xrandr

I'm using XFCE. Do you have any link for a documentation for that? Because I don't know neither from where to start.

seth

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Re: Ugly font rendering. Wrong dimensions detected by xdpyinfo and xrandr

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Xfce

Go to Settings Manager > Appearance > Fonts > Custom DPI setting and change from 96 to 192

- or in your case eg. 116

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liviubiur

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Registered: 2016-07-02

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Re: Ugly font rendering. Wrong dimensions detected by xdpyinfo and xrandr

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Xfce

Go to Settings Manager > Appearance > Fonts > Custom DPI setting and change from 96 to 192

- or in your case eg. 116

This was the first thing which I did but because on some websites (for example Gmail) the font is rendering bad, I thought there is something wrong with my configuration.

liviubiur

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Re: Ugly font rendering. Wrong dimensions detected by xdpyinfo and xrandr

I manage to make it working by adding at startup this command

xrandr --dpi 92

but still on Firefox there are some websites with a very ugly font.

seth

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Re: Ugly font rendering. Wrong dimensions detected by xdpyinfo and xrandr

a very ugly font

We maybe should establish what that means, since it's apparently not related to the DPI situation at all…
Please link a screenshot and post the output of

pacman -Qs fonts

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liviubiur

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Re: Ugly font rendering. Wrong dimensions detected by xdpyinfo and xrandr

For the screenshot I think it's enough my other post.

Here are the installed fonts.

ocal/apple-fonts 1.0.2-1
    Apple San Francisco, New York fonts, directly from Apple official source
local/cantarell-fonts 1:0.303.1-1
    Humanist sans serif font
local/fonts-meta-base 1-3
    Base font collection meta package, ported from Infinality.
local/fonts-meta-extended-lt 4-1
    Extended font collection meta package, ported from Infinality (lite version).
local/ftgl 2.4.0-2
    OpenGL library to use arbitrary fonts
local/gnu-free-fonts 20120503-8
    A free family of scalable outline fonts
local/gsfonts 20200910-2
    (URW)++ base 35 font set
local/libertinus-font 7.040-2
    Fonts based on Linux Libertine/Biolinum, with extended math support
local/nerd-fonts-hack 2.1.0-4
    Patched font Hack from nerd-fonts library
local/noto-fonts 20201226-2
    Google Noto TTF fonts
local/noto-fonts-emoji 20211101-1
    Google Noto emoji fonts
local/noto-fonts-extra 20201226-2
    Google Noto TTF fonts - additional variants
local/tex-gyre-fonts 2.501-2
    Substitute PostScript fonts in OpenType format
local/ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-14
    Bitstream Vera fonts.
local/ttf-carlito 20130920-6
    Google's Carlito font
local/ttf-croscore 20201226-2
    Chrome OS core fonts
local/ttf-dejavu 2.37+18+g9b5d1b2f-3
    Font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts with a wider range of characters
local/ttf-droid 20121017-10
    General-purpose fonts released by Google as part of Android
local/ttf-google-fonts-git 1:r3205.a7b3fb1d8-1
    TrueType fonts from the Google Fonts project (git version)
local/ttf-impallari-cantora 1.001-5 (impallari-fonts)
    Cantora ('Singer' in Spanish) is a friendly semi-formal, semi-condensed, semi–sans-serif font, from Pablo Impallari
local/ttf-linux-libertine 5.3.0-8
    Serif (Libertine) and Sans Serif (Biolinum) OpenType fonts with large Unicode coverage
local/ttf-ms-win10-auto 10.0.19042.789-3
    Microsoft Windows 10 TrueType fonts
local/ttf-roboto 2.138-4
    Google's signature family of fonts
local/xorg-font-util 1.3.2-2 (xorg-fonts xorg)
    X.Org font utilities
local/xorg-fonts-alias-misc 1.0.4-1
    X.org font alias files - misc font familiy
local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.5-2 (xorg-fonts xorg)
    X.org font encoding files
local/xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.3-10
    X.org misc fonts
local/xorg-mkfontscale 1.2.1-2 (xorg-apps xorg)
    Create an index of scalable font files for X