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Maxwell0v0

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Registered: 2022-09-02

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[SOLVED] Some apps display glyphs (visual characters) without smothing

This only occurs in some applications such as PDF Studio Viewer and Vivado.

I've been using i3 for about 2 or 3 months, before I was using gnome (wayland) and there this problem did not occur. 

This is my first post, my English is very basic.  I don't know where the problem is so I don't know what else to add to contextualize it.

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by Maxwell0v0 (2022-09-03 23:36:04)

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Maxwell0v0

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Registered: 2022-09-02

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Some apps display glyphs (visual characters) without smothing

I solved it by adding the following line to ~/.config/i3/config:

 exec --no-startup-id xfsettingsd

and relogin i3.

Greetings!

Edit:

Despite the above, digging a little further in the wiki, I found the source of the problem:

Some applications like Java or Wine do not get the font settings through Fontconfig so this is necessary to provide settings like anti-aliasing and font hinting.
Source: Xsettingsd

I finally configured anti-aliasing in Java apps by setting the following environment variable:

 _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on'

as suggested by the wiki at: Java Runtime Environment fonts.

Hope this can help someone

Last edited by Maxwell0v0 (2022-09-03 05:36:05)

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"I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
W. B. Yeats