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Energ0block

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Registered: 2022-11-15

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[SOLVED] The problem with fonts after the update

After updating arch and rebooting in some applications (chromium, slack), the text cannot be read. At the same time, if I take a screenshot or text selection, the text becomes readable.
In other applications (for example, firefox, thunderbird, thunar, etc.), the text is always without distortion.
Can you tell me which way I should move to solve the problem?

I have attached a photo of the screen, as the text becomes normal when the screenshot is taken.

Last edited by Energ0block (2026-05-28 08:42:41)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] The problem with fonts after the update

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=313635

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Energ0block

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Registered: 2022-11-15

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Re: [SOLVED] The problem with fonts after the update

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=313635

Thanks! Downgrading the mesa version really helped.

It may help other users with the same problem. That's what I was doing:

1) I'm looking for which versions of mesa are still in the cache:

ls -la /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ | grep mesa

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  11779633 Jan  2 13:17 mesa-1:25.3.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r--  1 root root       119 Jan  2 13:17 mesa-1:25.3.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  13120294 Feb  7 08:32 mesa-1:25.3.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r--  1 root root       119 Feb  7 08:32 mesa-1:25.3.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  13337270 Feb 26 04:31 mesa-1:26.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r--  1 root root       119 Feb 26 04:31 mesa-1:26.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  13334888 Mar 19 06:57 mesa-1:26.0.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r--  1 root root       119 Mar 19 06:57 mesa-1:26.0.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  13347736 Apr  2 03:22 mesa-1:26.0.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r--  1 root root       119 Apr  2 03:22 mesa-1:26.0.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  13351170 Apr 30 06:18 mesa-1:26.0.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r--  1 root root       119 Apr 30 06:18 mesa-1:26.0.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  13841803 May 21 17:39 mesa-1:26.1.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r--  1 root root       119 May 21 17:39 mesa-1:26.1.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig

2) Select the previous version of mesa-1.26.0.6 and install:

sudo pacman -U file:///var/cache/pacman/pkg/mesa-1:26.0.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

3) Reboot