Blurred fonts after fresh installation

Floban · November 4, 2019, 12:31pm

Yesterday I installed the latest ISO. I have AMD hardware (both CPU and Graphics) and am getting blurred fonts now, see attached screenshot.

Here’s some INXI info:

$ inxi
CPU: Quad Core AMD A4-5000 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (-MCP-) speed/min/max: 1159/800/1500 MHz 
Kernel: 5.3.8-arch1-1 x86_64 Up: 5h 01m Mem: 1687.5/3380.6 MiB (49.9%) Storage: 465.76 GiB (51.8% used) Procs: 156 
Shell: bash 5.0.11 inxi: 3.0.36

$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini [Radeon HD 8330] driver: radeon v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa tty: N/A 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD KABINI (DRM 2.50.0 5.3.8-arch1-1 LLVM 9.0.0) v: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.2

This is my first EOS install, before I had installed Antergos and Linux Mint and never experienced these fuzzy fonts.

Thanks in advance for looking at it.

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FLVAL · November 5, 2019, 12:13am

Welcome @Floban,

could you give the result from ?

locale

Did you read on the forum here about fonts ?

Floban · November 5, 2019, 8:23am

Here you go:

$ locale
LANG=de_DE.utf8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.utf8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Yes, I did. But it didn’t help me any further.

These blurred fonts occur all over: Browsers, Thunar, applications.

FLVAL · November 5, 2019, 10:18am

Hi @Floban,

Are you on the last update of EOS ?
Edit your /etc/locale.conf and modify “de_DE.UTF8” as “de_DE.UTF-8”

nano /etc/locale.conf

then

locale-gen

To know your DE could you give me the result from :

echo "${XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP}"

To choose a Font, look here at Archlinux fonts by default (/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/) are all listed : http://alexandre.deverteuil.net/pages/consolefonts/

Floban · November 5, 2019, 11:57am

Hi @FLVAL,

first of all, thanks for taking your time to have a look here, I really appreciate it.

Sorry for having missed the basic infos: I’m on the lastest release/version/maintenance level, as I have installed EOS freshly last Thursday - no further maintenance applied since then.
My DE is XFCE.

What I have recognized is that my /etc/locale.conf differs from the output of the locale command above:

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8

Obviously some stuff is missing here.

FLVAL · November 5, 2019, 2:16pm

Your locale is good, mine is working with :

LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_NAME=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8

Could you check if you have at the end of the file /etc/locale.gen these 2 lines if not add them with your language :

# Locales enabled by Calamares
fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8

To add them in case you don’t have nothing and save with CTRL Q or uncomment (remove #) the ones you need in the list as you want :

nano /etc/locale.gen

After it, you could generate :

locale-gen

Floban · November 5, 2019, 5:26pm

My /etc/locale.gen shows at the end of the file:

# Locales enabled by Calamares
de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8

And somewhere in between, the default language (I guess) is commented out, too:

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

FLVAL · November 5, 2019, 8:49pm

It seems to have different settings font between locale and environment !
Could you modify your /etc/locale.conf ?

sudo nano /etc/locale.conf

replace all what you have by below and save CRTL Q :

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8

then do with sudo :

sudo local-gen

When you reboot now, do you have the same between command locale and your locale.conf ?

Floban · November 5, 2019, 10:56pm

Unfortunately, nothing has changed. There’s still the difference between the console command and the generated file:

$ locale
LANG=de_DE.utf8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.utf8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

$ cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8

FLVAL · November 5, 2019, 11:18pm

Could you show all your accessible LANG ?

locale -a

Your locale is good.
Did you change something on your LightDM GTK+ and XFCE4 ? which font do you use there ?
Did you check some option from them ?

Mine here that works :
lightdm_gtk

Do you have 96 DPI at Xfce settings → Appearance → Fonts → Custom DPI setting
xfce4_police

Floban · November 6, 2019, 9:03am

These are my settings:

$ locale -a
C
de_DE.utf8
en_US.utf8
POSIX

What does that C mean?

Appearance:

Floban · November 6, 2019, 9:04am

And here’s the hardcopy of LightDM (I’m only allowed to post one image):
lightdm

FLVAL · November 6, 2019, 9:23am

Hi @Floban

could you try to set exatly like mine about same typo and size with 12 everywhere on both gtk + xfce ? and test after it the result on your browser… a reboot or relogin could be necessary.

The locale “C” or “POSIX” is a portable locale, it exists on all conforming systems.

Floban · November 6, 2019, 10:04am

Hi there @FLVAL,
will provide you with the info this afternoon. Gotta leave for an onsite appointment now.

Floban · November 6, 2019, 5:14pm

So, I’m back.
Before I left today, I set the DPI value in appearance to 96, before I had set it to 98. As you can see there’s no difference.

Floban · November 6, 2019, 5:14pm

And here’s the screenshot for Light DM:
lightdm

FLVAL · November 6, 2019, 5:23pm

Hi @Floban

When I asked You if you have 96 Dpi show me the 98 Dpi if you change things before to show me, it would be complicate to advance. That is showing me that you already did some changes in a different ways about font on your system…

I don’t understand ! You didn’t change the values on gtk + xfce ?
I asked you to modify with the same typo that mine and the size at 12 not 10 or 9 ?

Because from what I see you have SANS REGULAR 10 on xfce and I have NOTO SANS REGULAR 12 ! And in Light DM the name of typo is good but size is 10 not 12 !

Could You check it ? and put all the same than mine please ?
Then reboot and check in your browser.

Floban · November 6, 2019, 6:26pm

Sorry for having caused confusion. Was in a hurry today and simply forgot that I’ve already posted the old screenshots and haven’t set your values
So, here’s LightDM:
ss301

Floban · November 6, 2019, 6:27pm

Here’s Appearance in the Settings menu:
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Floban · November 6, 2019, 6:29pm

And here’s the result of these settings:
ss302
Except that the font(s) got larger (and slighty better readable) nothing has changed. It’s still blurred.