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Wholteza

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Registered: 2015-09-16

Posts: 3

Font looks mashed in chrome

I have searched the forum but can't find any solution that works for me.

The problem i'm having is that the font in chrome looks mashed together.
It happens on all sites i browse, but ONLY in the browser, not in other system applications.

See the picture below.
Any ideas?

http://i.imgur.com/8JlRqUt.png

mrflibble86

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Registered: 2015-04-27

Posts: 1

Re: Font looks mashed in chrome

i had a similar problem but with xfce terminal, i just changed the font and it worked. Dont know if it will work with chrome if you change the font inside chrome.

dviktor

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From: Moscow

Registered: 2015-10-18

Posts: 162

Re: Font looks mashed in chrome

Try to install MS fonts or change system default to, e. g., Deja Vu family

Wholteza

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Registered: 2015-09-16

Posts: 3

Re: Font looks mashed in chrome

Try to install MS fonts or change system default to, e. g., Deja Vu family

I tried this, installing the ttf-ms-win10 package from the AUR with fonts and license accuired from my windows 10 install. But it still looks mashed

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

Posts: 1,069

Re: Font looks mashed in chrome

Perhaps this is a graphics driver bug? Maybe there's nothing wrong with the font setup and libraries. I'd try seeing how Chrome behaves if you do not use hardware acceleration for graphics, just to find out if the problems are caused by that. There's this URL here which shows something about the GPU use in Chrome:

chrome://gpu/

When you open Chrome settings, scroll to the end of the settings page and click on "Show advanced settings...", then again scroll to the end and you'll see a check box for hardware acceleration.

Another thing that might be interesting, if you visit the following URL here, it has several options that are named like they would change something about the GPU use:

chrome://flags/

Last edited by Ropid (2017-05-27 20:20:35)