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i3

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Registered: 2014-08-27

Posts: 12

Fonts are not displaying correctly

Hello,

I was not quite sure where to post this problem, but I hope it will work out here.

The problem: Sometimes my laptop (HP Elitebook 2540p connected to a dockingstation) acts very weird. The letters (inside any program) become black/grey rectangles for no reason. Then I have to reboot my laptop and everything works fine, again.

I think a picture says more than hundred words, so here it is:

http://i.imgur.com/pwFkc0J.png?1

As you can see I am using i3 desktop environment and this "problem" exists across applications.
Is this some kind of hardware/graphics issue or something software specific?? It does not look very good

Hope someone can help me..?

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Last edited by i3 (2015-04-16 12:37:05)

LeonardK

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Re: Fonts are not displaying correctly

I doubt this is a hardware issue – hardware issues are agnostic of specific characters, as this is the case it seems:
There's no 'c' or 't' not corrupted and on the other hand – it seems – no corrupted 'd's.
Have you just tried setting the font to something different?