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

[gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>]

пн, 2 мая 2022 г. в 15:04, 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:
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> > > > 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,

Thank you. I will try another WM, probably XFCE4, which
I have used before Awesome (among other options)
and report my finding in this thread.

> 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.