[SOLVED] Blocky font w/u winecfg, i3, used to look good in KDE.

LinuxLover471 · 2025-07-30 12:55:26

Hello! I hope that you are doing well.

I have tried searching many places including the wiki for this, but couldn't find a definitive answer.

When I run winecfg, it opens normally but the font inside it is very blocky. When I increase the DPI in the Graphics tab, it blurs the next time I open winecfg. Which increases the more I increase the DPI, and after a point it starts to look "washed out" just like what happens when you increase the contrast of your monitor to too high levels. Increasing it even higher causes it to appear partially, which means the other area is black. Interestingly though, the area that appears partially actually works properly.

Using a new prefix doesn't help nor fix the issue.

I am using i3 with picom and don't have KDE installed right now, the issue didn't used to appear in KDE.

I have tried Wine entry 2.3 and 2.3.1 in the wiki, but it doesn't fix the issue, even after using wineserver -k and rerunning winecfg.

I am using wine 10.8-2 as the latest wine 10.12-1 produces some errors for me, probably due to the CPU not supporting AVX instructions. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58335

Some system info-

System:
  Kernel: 6.15.8-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
  Desktop: i3 v: 4.24 dm: N/A Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: G31M-ES2L serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: Award v: FI date: 08/09/2010
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Penryn rev: A cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2834 min/max: 2000/2834 cores: 1: 2834 2: 2834 3: 2834
    4: 2834 bogomips: 22667
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK107 [GeForce GT 740] driver: nvidia v: 470.256.02
    arch: Kepler-2 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
    off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0fc8
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 compositor: Picom v: 12.5 driver:
    X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa
    gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0
    note: <missing: xdpyinfo/xrandr>
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: LG (GoldStar) FHD res: 1920x1080 dpi: 102
    diag: 546mm (21.5")
  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. glxinfo is missing.
  Info: Tools: gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi x11: xprop
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio
    vendor: Gigabyte GA-D525TUD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:27d8
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e1b
  API: ALSA v: k6.15.8-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off
  Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.4.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Message: No PCI device data found.
  Device-1: Ralink 802.11 n WLAN driver: rt2800usb type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2-6:3 chip-ID: 148f:5370
  IF: wlp0s29f7u6 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 52.13 GiB (3.7%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SU800 size: 476.94 GiB
    speed: <unknown> serial: <filter>
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA100 size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: <unknown> serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 39.08 GiB used: 9.52 GiB (24.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
  ID-2: /home size: 195.8 GiB used: 42.61 GiB (21.8%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda5
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 12 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/sda7
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 52 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 34%
Info:
  Memory: total: 4 GiB available: 3.82 GiB used: 1.8 GiB (47.3%)
  Processes: 180 Power: uptime: 1h 48m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 257
    default: graphical
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 611 Compilers: clang: 20.1.8 gcc: 15.1.1
    Shell: Bash v: 5.3.3 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.38

Thanks in advance,
LL

Last edited by LinuxLover471 (2025-08-05 03:34:49)

seth · 2025-07-30 14:23:55

pacman -Qs 'ttf|otf'

LinuxLover471 · 2025-07-30 15:45:26

Output of pacman -Qs

local/gnu-free-fonts 20120503-8
    A free family of scalable outline fonts
local/ttf-fira-code 6.2-2
    Monospaced font with programming ligatures

I have the fira code fonts for my terminal and polybar, and I have inter-font for my i3's window names etc.

seth · 2025-07-30 17:12:11

fc-match sans

Does it help to install https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/ttf-dejavu/ ?

LinuxLover471 · 2025-07-31 01:13:57

Output of fc-match sans

NimbusSans-Regular.otf: "Nimbus Sans" "Regular"

Installing ttf-dejavu and running winecfg does not fix the issue. Re-running with wineserver -k and winecfg does the same.
I also got an error in the terminal while running wine, if that's related at all.

012c:fixme:msg:pack_message msg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet

Thanks!

seth · 2025-07-31 06:35:05

Does it change the output of "fc-match sans"?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … ault_fonts

Nimbus is (most likely) from gsfonts, is it the font you see?
(maybe better link a screenshot)

wine might prefer https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … ig_support

LinuxLover471 · 2025-08-04 10:22:16

Firstly, sorry for the late response, I was busy and I thought I would have to give short answers, so I postponed it.

Does it change the output of "fc-match sans"?

Yes it does, Now it is

DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

Here is a screenshot.
(img removed)

Whoop! The last link https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_c … ig_support worked very well! I just installed xorg-xrdb and ran xrdb ~/.Xresources after creating the .Xresources file.

I also did the Default font fix but I am not sure if that worked or not.

But, the issue is fixed, it persists even after a reboot.

Thanks!

Last edited by LinuxLover471 (2025-09-22 15:26:43)

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#1 2025-07-30 12:55:26

[SOLVED] Blocky font w/u winecfg, i3, used to look good in KDE.

#2 2025-07-30 14:23:55

Re: [SOLVED] Blocky font w/u winecfg, i3, used to look good in KDE.

#3 2025-07-30 15:45:26

Re: [SOLVED] Blocky font w/u winecfg, i3, used to look good in KDE.

#4 2025-07-30 17:12:11

Re: [SOLVED] Blocky font w/u winecfg, i3, used to look good in KDE.

#5 2025-07-31 01:13:57

Re: [SOLVED] Blocky font w/u winecfg, i3, used to look good in KDE.

#6 2025-07-31 06:35:05

Re: [SOLVED] Blocky font w/u winecfg, i3, used to look good in KDE.

#7 2025-08-04 10:22:16

Re: [SOLVED] Blocky font w/u winecfg, i3, used to look good in KDE.

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