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#1 2009-04-07 12:56:21

wazow
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From: Europe
Registered: 2008-11-11
Posts: 39

Fonts in all Qt apps are broken (truncated after several pixels)

I am running gnome. After some twaeks (I have no clue), fonts in my qt apps have been corrupted.  This is how my skype looks:

skype.png

Any other qt app looks more or less the same (including qtconfig).  I am desperate to fix it.   Any hints?

When I run these applications under ratpoison, with the same xorg.conf, they look perfectly ok.  So it must be that gnome does something to these fonts.

I have tried erasing all files and directories with .font* prefix and .qt* in my home directory, but this does not help.

UPDATE: I have noticed that not all Qt applications are affected.  qtconfig, skype and vlc are, but krite or kword seem to be doing fine.  I do not know Qt intricacies, so I would not know in which way these differ, to be able to narrow down the problem better.

Last edited by wazow (2009-04-07 14:39:07)

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#2 2009-04-07 13:52:30

zebulon
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Registered: 2008-10-20
Posts: 349

Re: Fonts in all Qt apps are broken (truncated after several pixels)

You have sub-pixel antialiasing set to a vertical RGB/GBR. Use horizontal instead.
See this post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69215

Last edited by zebulon (2009-04-07 13:53:06)

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#3 2009-04-07 14:24:48

wazow
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From: Europe
Registered: 2008-11-11
Posts: 39

Re: Fonts in all Qt apps are broken (truncated after several pixels)

zebulon wrote:

You have sub-pixel antialiasing set to a vertical RGB/GBR. Use horizontal instead.
See this post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69215

This is truly amazing.  It works!  Thank you so much.  I cannot see how possibly ever I could discover this myself smile

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