Re: [gentoo-user] Some symbols render incomplete in text mode

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:46:45 BST gevisz wrote:
> вс, 1 мая 2022 г. в 13:58, Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>:
> > On Saturday, 30 April 2022 12:49:59 BST gevisz wrote:

> > > Moreover, I am starting to suspect that
> > > the problem with incomplete rendering letters
> > > "in text mode" and the problem with symbols
> > > in the youtube video player toolbar may be
> > > separate ones as the latter is much more
> > > reproducible and appears only in google-chrome
> > > (have not noticed it in Firefox, for example,
> > > though I quite rarely use Firefox to view youtube videos).
> > 
> > I can't offer much help on this, but I'll share a similar experience.  I
> > have seen something like this happening on Chromium, running on
> > Enlightenment desktop a few years ago.  I recall it was affected by the
> > scale set on the desktop 1.2:1 or something like that.  I can't recall if
> > this was also occurring on Plasma.  I think I saw the same missing
> > character problem on the title bar of the browser window.  This was on
> > English text (UTF8 encoding). Firefox and other applications didn't have
> > a problem.  At that time I recall Chromium's rendering of the
> > menu/toolbar and window border was fighting against the desktop.  Some
> > update on Chromium eventually fixed things.  So I blamed it on the
> > interplay between the desktop, browser and graphics card/driver (radeon).
> 
> Thank you for your input. My graphic card is also Radeon,
> namely, built-in ATI Radeon X1250, and I use Awesome WM.
> The problem appears mostly in google-chrome, but I saw it
> also in Gvim, and currently it appeared also in the taskbar.
> A properly cropped screenshot is attached to this message.

I suspect some interaction between your window manager and graphics driver 
causes your character and symbol rendering problem.  You may want to install a 
different window manager and see if the problem remains, then approach the 
Awesome devs to help you with troubleshooting.  It's not unusual for less 
mainstream WM devs to focus their code on NVidia/Intel, or whatever hardware 
and drivers they have at their disposal and miss out on such problems like 
yours until they are drawn to their attention.

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