Distorted Text on Spotify

insciwetrust · 2023-07-20 23:33:21

Spotify acts up on my recent Arch install and displays distorted text at various positions in the interface. This is one example: https://imgur.com/PgTi6Nu

I tried installing xf86-video-intel (my laptop has an Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 GPU) after seeing it recommended under a post, but it ended up making Spotify and my browser completely blank upon launch for some reason, so I uninstalled it.

Could you help me?

Last edited by insciwetrust (2023-07-21 09:21:07)

seth · 2023-07-21 05:35:41

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=287316
Can you tell whether it's a recent regression (eg. w/ the last MESA updated)?

I tried installing xf86-video-intel

Remove that again.
Ok, you figured that

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insciwetrust · 2023-07-21 13:36:48

seth wrote:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=287316
Can you tell whether it's a recent regression (eg. w/ the last MESA updated)?
I tried installing xf86-video-intel
Remove that again.
Ok, you figured that

I set up Arch literally hours before posting this, so I cannot confirm whether it is because of an update

The problem you linked seems to be the same as mine, but creating /etc/profile.d/10-intel.sh with the following inside did not help:

#!/bin/sh
export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink

seth · 2023-07-21 13:43:05

Does it help to run it w/ "--disable-gpu" or "LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1"
To be sure, after adding that file, did you re-login?

insciwetrust · 2023-07-21 17:14:11

seth wrote:

Does it help to run it w/ "--disable-gpu" or "LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1"
To be sure, after adding that file, did you re-login?

I tried it with both and they did not work. To be clear, you mean like either of the following right?

#!/bin/sh
export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink --disable-gpu

#!/bin/sh
export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1

I rebooted my system after each change.

seth · 2023-07-21 19:32:43

No.

killall spotify; spotify --disable-gpu

killall spotify; LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 spotify

Remove the profile.d files, even if that was not mostly nonsense, you would not want it to work (and have global impact)

insciwetrust · 2023-07-21 20:24:01

seth wrote:

No.
killall spotify; spotify --disable-gpu
killall spotify; LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 spotify
Remove the profile.d files, even if that was not mostly nonsense, you would not want it to work (and have global impact)

The first one works! How can I make this solution permanent?

seth · 2023-07-21 20:26:51

I will just assume that you mean "how can I have this apply when I click on some icon in some GUI launcher"?
Follow the pattern of https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Spotify#HiDPI_Mode

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