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SirMyztiq

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Registered: 2015-03-24

Posts: 118

[SOLVED]Chrome's ultra light text

Hello,

I have the "google-chrome" from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-chrome  installed and I think I've finally reached my tolerance limit with this defect/bug.

Gray text or borders, whatever it may be, appear ridiculously light on my screen. This affects sites like GitHub when I'm just browsing through the code, its too light to see. I see it happening on some of the web applications I'm working on that the front-end guys send me. I mean it's pretty much see through and I don't have this problem on the Chrome installed on my mac for example, running the same version of Chrome I believe.

Is there a setting or something I might tinker with? I'm on KDE Plasma.

SOLUTION:
Reinstalling Chrome(including all config files) did the trick.

Last edited by SirMyztiq (2015-07-09 21:42:21)

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,634

Re: [SOLVED]Chrome's ultra light text

Have you tried another web browser than Chrome? Or attached a different monitor to your computer and looked at it there?

Because to me this sounds more like a "problem" with your monitor calibration/colour profile.

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SirMyztiq

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Registered: 2015-03-24

Posts: 118

Re: [SOLVED]Chrome's ultra light text

Have you tried another web browser than Chrome? Or attached a different monitor to your computer and looked at it there?

Because to me this sounds more like a "problem" with your monitor calibration/colour profile.

Here is a comparison of Firefox and Chrome.

I mean, the font size in Firefox seems a bit bigger but that also could be because of the higher fidelity of the font.

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,634

Re: [SOLVED]Chrome's ultra light text

The font to the right is either not optimised for being displayed on the screen, or yes, Chrome is doing some bad job.

I don't know why Chrome chooses a different monospace font, though. Can you tell it to use DejaVu, or some other sane font?

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x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: [SOLVED]Chrome's ultra light text

Maybe this might help:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1538112

SirMyztiq

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Registered: 2015-03-24

Posts: 118

Re: [SOLVED]Chrome's ultra light text

Maybe this might help:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1538112

I tried the commands mentioned in that thread. No dice.

I also changed the monospace font to DejaVu. Still looks super light.

mcloaked

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 1,371

Re: [SOLVED]Chrome's ultra light text

Do you have gtk-kde4 installed?  That allows you to set the style for gtk applications - I use that package in KDE4 to help get the display in chrome right. Maybe that helps for plasma too if it is also optimised for plasma?

I also see that there is a package kde-gtk-config - which is for plasma - maybe the style can be set there to help with chrome display in plasma?

Last edited by mcloaked (2015-06-25 20:35:48)

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SirMyztiq

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Registered: 2015-03-24

Posts: 118

Re: [SOLVED]Chrome's ultra light text

I reinstalled Chrome and it is magically way more palatable to the eye. Not really sure what went wrong the first time around though.