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#1 2024-10-14 06:49:53
- beedaddy
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Some graphical font glitches in KDE Plasma
I recently installed Arch Linux with KDE Plasma (using archinstaller). In some applications I notice some kind of graphical font glitches (see screenshots). Does anyone perhaps know how to fix this? My graphics card is a AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT, but I did not set up anything special. In most of the applications (for example kate), the font looks ok.
NeoChat:
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#2 2024-10-14 07:21:32
- seth
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Re: Some graphical font glitches in KDE Plasma
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_configuration
First one looks like subpixel hinting, second one certainly also lacks antialiasing.
In most of the applications (for example kate), the font looks ok.
In some applications I notice some kind of graphical font glitches
Can we make this a positive list?
neochat is https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/neochat/ - not some flatschpak?
Also is this plasma on wayland or plasma on X11 (and does it matter?)
Could be an xwayland related issue.
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#3 2024-10-14 07:43:35
- beedaddy
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Re: Some graphical font glitches in KDE Plasma
In the meantime, I found this Qt-bug. So it might affect only rendering with WebEngine (not sure if NeoChat uses it). But shouldn't many more users be affected?
neochat is https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/neochat/ - not some flatschpak?
Yes, NeoChat is a native package.
Also is this plasma on wayland or plasma on X11 (and does it matter?)
It is Plasma on Wayland.
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#4 2024-10-14 13:37:55
- seth
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Re: Some graphical font glitches in KDE Plasma
Do you use fractional scaling?
Do you get the same on X11?
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#5 2024-10-14 13:57:17
- beedaddy
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Re: Some graphical font glitches in KDE Plasma
Do you use fractional scaling?
Yes (150%).
Do you get the same on X11?
No, it seems to be a Wayland-only problem.
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#6 2024-10-14 15:12:06
- seth
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Re: Some graphical font glitches in KDE Plasma
If it goes away when disabling fractional scaling you've most likely found your bug.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra-te … webengine/ is in the testing repo, NOTICE that the testing repos are always all or nothing, do not just enable extra-testing w/o core-testing and update all packages to theri testing variant if you want to try.
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