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duynguyen

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Registered: 2020-04-14

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[SOLVED] Bad font rendering in Firefox and some other applications

In google chrome, everything looks fine. You can see from the images below:
gnome-pomodoro:
firefox:
chrome:

I'm currently using Xfce4. I have:
hinting: full
anti-aliasting: enabled
default font: Tahoma 13.5
default monospace font: Source code pro 14
dpi: 96

output of fc-list:

duy@duy:~/.local/share$ fc-list | pastebinit
https://pastebin.com/Q8HA23Eg

My solution:
The problem seems to come from Tahoma font so I change it to Liberation

Last edited by duynguyen (2020-04-14 14:39:42)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in Firefox and some other applications

Chrome ignores most fonconfig settigns and the rest probably "suffers" from the full hinting, try hintslight.

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duynguyen

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Registered: 2020-04-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in Firefox and some other applications

Chrome ignores most fonconfig settigns and the rest probably "suffers" from the full hinting, try hintslight.

I've tried. It did not help

I find out that if I set the dpi to 90 the pomodoro looks fine. If I zoom firefox page in a liitle bit, it looks find too

Last edited by duynguyen (2020-04-14 14:04:04)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in Firefox and some other applications

"Tried" how and "did not help" how? Did you notice any impact from the altered setting?

Sanity check:

loginctl session-status

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duynguyen

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Registered: 2020-04-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in Firefox and some other applications

I set it in the setting. Nothing changed, It all looked the same as before

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in Firefox and some other applications

I'm not sure how xfce handles this, but did you re-login to the session?

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sevendogs

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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in Firefox and some other applications

OP: do you have bitmap font scaling enabled? This has always caused my Firefox fonts to be bad. I normally enable the "no bitmaps" config available in /etc/fonts/conf.avail and delete the "scale bitmaps" (not sure the exact name) symlink in the /etc/fonts/conf.d directory.

Not sure this will resolve your issue but it normally does with my set up.

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duynguyen

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Registered: 2020-04-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Bad font rendering in Firefox and some other applications

I'm not sure how xfce handles this, but did you re-login to the session?

yes
I don't know why but when I change the font settings, everything still looks the same except for when I change the dpi