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Cbhihe

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Registered: 2017-04-09

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[SOLVED] Faulty font rendering in windows' title bar

[Running Gnome3 on gdm with xorg ]

I have an issue with the font used for windows' title bars not being rendered correctly in all windows. The issue cropped up about 72 hours ago. See an example here.
I checked whether I had an basic font installation problem:

>grep /fonts ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log  
[    14.001] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" does not exist.
                              /usr/share/fonts/misc/,
                              /usr/share/fonts/TTF/,
                              /usr/share/fonts/OTF/,        
                              /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
                              /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ 
>xset q | grep -A1 -e "Font Path:"
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,built-ins

but everything seems to be as was before the issue cropped up.

I also went to /etc/fonts/conf.d following another post and modified 45-latin.conf to place Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans and Liberation Mono on top of their respective list to see if maybe an update had messed up the previous top of the list font being rendered.
No change after logout/login. Maybe restarting xorg....

Last edited by Cbhihe (2018-01-13 23:30:59)

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Cbhihe

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Registered: 2017-04-09

Posts: 244

Re: [SOLVED] Faulty font rendering in windows' title bar

Actually rebooting after above changes did the trick.
So I guess this is that.

Still, I wonder whether it is an update that messed up the windows' title bars' font rendering in the first place.

(For info: before replacement by Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans and Liberation Mono, the top-of-list fonts were Bitstream Vera Serif, Albany AMT and Andale Mono respectively.)

Last edited by Cbhihe (2018-01-13 23:24:47)

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Re: [SOLVED] Faulty font rendering in windows' title bar

The issue cropped up about 72 hours ago.

The obvious question is, what was updated before you encountered this issue that could break font rendering. Check and post your pacman.log.

For the record, I have no font rendering issues on gnome, although running under wayland.

EDIT. Never mind the above, since reboot solved your issue. You can mark the thread as SOLVED.

Also, you should use gnome-tweak-tool to change the UI fonts in gnome (apart from the font used in shell).

Since this is Newbie Corner, I suppose I should also mention that it not always good idea to follow suggestions from 6 years old forum posts, even though in this case you probably didn't break anything.
For something as basic as changing the default font, always check the wiki first: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration

Last edited by ooo (2018-01-13 23:20:08)