Lacking font smoothing on some elements

elfio · 2015-10-29 11:27:43

Since a few days ago I'm experiencing some problems with what looks like an antialiasing problem. Web browsers which use qt5 web engine shows some pages with pixelated fonts. I didn't change any configuration. I've tried Konqueror (webkit and KHTML), Rekonq, Otter and qutebrowser with the same result.

At the begining I though it was something related to pyqt5 (since qutebrowser is written on that and it's my web browser of choice), but all this browsers has the same problem.

Also, on the font gallery of Plasma I can see some glitches too.

Here you have some screenshots:
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I run Arch (please) up to date, 64 bits, Plasma and standart repos, no testing.
My laptop has Intel hardware with X3100 graphic card.

Here is my $ cat /var/log/pacman.log of the last days:

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[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded libdbus (1.10.0-3 -> 1.10.0-4)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded dbus (1.10.0-3 -> 1.10.0-4)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded glib2 (2.46.0-2 -> 2.46.1-1)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded libusb (1.0.19-1 -> 1.0.20-1)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded chromium (46.0.2490.71-1 -> 46.0.2490.71-2)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded device-mapper (2.02.125-1 -> 2.02.132-1)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded geos (3.4.2-2 -> 3.5.0-1)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded gnuchess (6.2.1-1 -> 6.2.2-1)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded jre7-openjdk-headless (7.u85_2.6.1-1 -> 7.u85_2.6.1-2)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded jre7-openjdk (7.u85_2.6.1-1 -> 7.u85_2.6.1-2)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded jdk7-openjdk (7.u85_2.6.1-1 -> 7.u85_2.6.1-2)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded lvm2 (2.02.125-1 -> 2.02.132-1)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded sbcl (1.2.12-1 -> 1.2.16-1)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] upgraded maxima (5.37.2-1 -> 5.37.2-2)
[2015-10-20 16:55] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2015-10-20 17:34] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2015-10-20 17:34] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
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[2015-10-21 13:05] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2015-10-21 13:05] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2015-10-21 13:05] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2015-10-21 13:06] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-10-21 13:06] [ALPM] upgraded avahi (0.6.31-17 -> 0.6.32rc-1)
[2015-10-21 13:06] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Avahi now needs to be enabled in order to launch.
[2015-10-21 13:06] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]     Run `systemctl enable avahi-daemon` if you wish
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[2015-10-21 13:06] [ALPM] upgraded thin-provisioning-tools (0.4.1-1 -> 0.5.3-1)
[2015-10-21 13:06] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-xinput (1.6.1-1 -> 1.6.2-1)
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[2015-10-22 08:52] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2015-10-22 08:52] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2015-10-22 08:52] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2015-10-22 09:07] [ALPM] transaction started
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[2015-10-22 09:08] [ALPM] upgraded openscad (2015.03.01-4 -> 2015.03.01-6)
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[2015-10-22 09:08] [ALPM] upgraded qt5-webchannel (5.5.0-2 -> 5.5.1-1)
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[2015-10-23 09:29] [ALPM] upgraded python2-urllib3 (1.12-2 -> 1.12-3)
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Anything else info you think it's relevant just tell me.

Thank you for your time.

olive · 2015-10-30 19:17:55

You can try to disable pixel fonts in fontconfig, as root:

cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
ln -s ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf .

A screenshot and a specific website might help. I have also experienced problems when some fonts are installed. Some fonts provided in the repositories render very poorly and thus it is much better not to have these installed, to be sure they are not used. What fonts have you installed (you can run pacman -Qo /usr/share/fonts to find them)? Other than that, I believe KDE have tools to configure fonts, but I cannot say more; I use XFCE.

Last edited by olive (2015-10-30 19:18:39)

elfio · 2015-10-31 12:12:38

I think it's related to xorg-fonts-75dpi package. It's installed has a dependency of aur/root.

I'm going to try disable pixel fonts as you say.

Here you have the fonts I have installed:

$ pacman -Qo /usr/share/fonts 
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en adobe-source-code-pro-fonts 2.010ro+1.030it-1
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en adobe-source-sans-pro-fonts 2.010ro+1.065it-2
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en adobe-source-serif-pro-fonts 1.017-1
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en gsfonts 20150811-1
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en otf-fira-mono 2:3.204-1
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en otf-fira-sans 1:4.104-1
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en ttf-dejavu 2.34-2
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en ttf-freefont 20120503-4
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en ttf-hanazono 20141012-1
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en ttf-hannom 2005-4
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en ttf-liberation 2.00.1-5
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-10
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en ttf-oxygen 1:5.4.2-1
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en ttf-stylebats 1.0-2
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en xorg-font-util 1.3.1-1
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.3-2
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.3-2
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.3-1
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.4-4
/usr/share/fonts/ está contenido en xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.3-4

The usual configuration Plasma has to do this is not working on this certain webs, but works fine on all the other parts of the system.
A good example of lack of font smoothing is any repo of github.com: https://github.com/helfio/generadorPartidos
which has this looking on my laptop: https://img.bi/#/8jCeo5o!I3qDxMRwbS2pg2 … GmXqDRmZkl

As you can see, fonts are edge are sharp and not confortable to read.

Thank you for your help

Last edited by elfio (2015-10-31 12:13:08)

olive · 2015-10-31 12:34:46

xorg-fonts-75dpi is usually needed because it used by older apps not using fontconfig. But these pixels fonts can be disabled for modern apps by the trick above; so they are only used in older apps that only understand these. Also KDE has the ability to disable font smoothing in its configuration. To be sure it is not related to a bad config, create a new user, say test, and log in as test and see if the problem persists. The problem of websites is that they often specify an explicit font (or list of them) and the system try to find the "closed matching font" and so a bad font can be chosen, so better to only have good looking fonts installed. This is particularly true if you install all of your Windows fonts in Linux, some of them render very poorly in Linux and appears sporadically on some websites. The KDE interface only requests proper fonts, so the problem does not appear. Here is my font list (but I don't use KDE):

/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by cantarell-fonts 0.0.17.2-1
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by gsfonts 20150811-1
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by otf-latinmodern-math 1.958-3
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by ttf-dejavu 2.34-2
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by ttf-freefont 20120503-4
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by ttf-liberation 2.00.1-5
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-10
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by ttf-oxygen 1:5.4.2-1
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by ttf-ubuntu-font-family 0.80-5
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by xorg-font-util 1.3.1-1
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.3-2
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.3-2
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.3-1
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.4-4
/usr/share/fonts/ is owned by xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.3-4

Last edited by olive (2015-10-31 12:38:26)

elfio · 2015-10-31 18:44:46

Your trick solved the issue

Maybe it should be on Arch wiki, don't you think?

olive · 2015-10-31 20:20:34

Good, I also see now in your screenshot that you are using Helvetica, Times in KDE config. These usually refer to pixel fonts. Since you have disabled them, they are not used anymore and the system pick another font, but it is better to refer to a clearly identified good looking font. The Deja Vu font family render very well, I suggest to use these one in every dialog box. Any way disabling pixel fonts is nevertheless a good idea since some websites can specifically refer to Helvetica, Times, ...

Last edited by olive (2015-10-31 20:21:19)

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#1 2015-10-29 11:27:43

Lacking font smoothing on some elements

#2 2015-10-30 19:17:55

Re: Lacking font smoothing on some elements

#3 2015-10-31 12:12:38

Re: Lacking font smoothing on some elements

#4 2015-10-31 12:34:46

Re: Lacking font smoothing on some elements

#5 2015-10-31 18:44:46

Re: Lacking font smoothing on some elements

#6 2015-10-31 20:20:34

Re: Lacking font smoothing on some elements

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