Summary: | Plasma 5: Bad rendering of certain font | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Philip Nystromer <philip.nystromer> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo KDE team <kde> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | major | ||
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: | Screenshot of badly rendered font |
Description
Philip Nystromer
2016-08-09 16:51:48 UTC
I may add that my graphics HW is Intel HD Graphics 5500 The Haswell graphics controller is loaded: # lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep LoadModule [ 10.196] (II) LoadModule: "glx" [ 10.211] (II) LoadModule: "intel" [ 10.214] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting" [ 10.215] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev" [ 10.215] (II) LoadModule: "vesa" [ 10.226] (II) LoadModule: "dri2" [ 10.226] (II) LoadModule: "present" [ 10.347] (II) LoadModule: "evdev" [ 10.368] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics The following x11-driver is installed x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel Latest version available: 2.99.917-r2 Latest version installed: 2.99.917-r2 Size of files: 2 207 KiB Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ Description: X.Org driver for Intel cards License: MIT This is probably a bug in the way KDE determine the System default settings for my particular screen and monitor. I have managed to apply a manual setting, which mitigate the problem, under Applikcation Launcher -> Settings -> System settings -> Fonts, as follows KDE Application Menu -> Settings -> System Settings -> Fonts -> <check the Force Fonts DPI button> and set it to 120 and KDE Application Menu -> Settings -> System Settings -> Fonts -> Use Anti-aliasing -> <change this from "System settings to" Enabled"> then proceed from there into the Configure... menu and experiment with RGB etc settings. For me it worked with: "Exclude range tick box": <Unchecked> "Subpixel rendering type": <RGB>" "Hinting style": <Medium> If I revert to System Default for all settings under KDE Application Menu -> Settings -> System Settings -> Fonts I get the badly rendered fonts back. I think the root cause is that the KDE 5 Plasma suite, together with Xorg, possibly in combination with how the Gentoo e-builds are setup for KDE 5 Plasma, does not recognize the type and specification of the screen and monitor I have and set the Font System Default settings accordingly. My screen is high resolution 2560x1440 pixel, 14" monitor (Computer is Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop, type 20A7-005KMS) Thanks for reporting, but this is not a packaging issue. Please report upstream to improve the software. |