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Letters go missing on cinnamon menu

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Hi forum,
Every now and then a letter decides to go missing on cinnamon menu (as seen in picture)
Solves itself after reboot, not sure why that happens.

Any ideas?

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-53-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.12 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: Mutter vt: 7
    dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B550M-A v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2803
    date: 04/28/2022
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 3
    serial: <filter> charge: 50% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
    status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
    arch: Zen 2 rev: 0 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 32 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2231 high: 3597 min/max: 2200/4426 boost: enabled
    cores: 1: 2126 2: 2056 3: 2199 4: 2196 5: 2055 6: 2057 7: 2246 8: 2183
    9: 2203 10: 2199 11: 3597 12: 2056 13: 2057 14: 2057 15: 2217 16: 2194
    bogomips: 115202
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT / 6800M] vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: DP-2,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1 bus-ID: 0c:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:73df class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 12800x2880 s-dpi: 112 s-size: 2903x653mm (114.3x25.7")
    s-diag: 2976mm (117.1")
  Monitor-1: DisplayPort-1 mapped: DP-2 pos: primary,top-center
    model: Lenovo L32p-30 serial: <filter> res: 5120x2880 hz: 60 dpi: 187
    size: 697x392mm (27.4x15.4") diag: 800mm (31.5") modes: max: 3840x2160
    min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: HDMI-A-0 mapped: HDMI-A-1 pos: middle-l model: ASUS VA27EHE
    serial: <filter> res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 163
    size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 686mm (27") modes: max: 1920x1080
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  Monitor-3: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-2 pos: bottom-r model: Samsung S24F350
    serial: <filter> res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 187
    size: 521x293mm (20.5x11.5") diag: 598mm (23.5") modes: max: 1920x1080
    min: 720x400
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (navy_flounder LLVM 13.0.1 DRM
    3.42 5.15.0-53-generic)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 21 HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT]
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 0c:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: iCreate Xonar U7 type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 1043:857c
    class-ID: 0300
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-53-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp9s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: TP-Link Archer T4U ver.3 type: USB driver: rtl88x2bu
    bus-ID: 3-3:3 chip-ID: 2357:0115 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
  IF: wlxe848b8938e08 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
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  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000P1SSD8 size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: P3CR021
    temp: 43.9 C scheme: GPT
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    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 6L0Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 233.18 GiB used: 40.14 GiB (17.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.2 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sdd1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 54.0 C
    mem: 52.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Repos:
  Packages: 2635 apt: 2598 flatpak: 37
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:Alexx2000.list
    1: deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Alexx2000/xUbuntu_22.04/ /
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vanessa main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
    1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.sources
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://deb.librewolf.net focal main
Info:
  Processes: 399 Uptime: 12h 6m wakeups: 30 Memory: 31.26 GiB
  used: 3.98 GiB (12.7%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13
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Re: Letters go missing on cinnamon menu

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tzell wrote: ⤴Sun Nov 27, 2022 4:03 pmEvery now and then a letter decides to go missing on cinnamon menu (as seen in picture)
So something is running that is replacing every occurrence of an i or I with .
tzell wrote: ⤴Sun Nov 27, 2022 4:03 pmSolves itself after reboot, not sure why that happens.
Your issue with Trash was similar in that it fixed itself on reboot.

This does not correspond with when you are running Bleachbit, does it? (Perhaps a file is being cleared out something by Bleachbit and then is recreated at boot time--total guess on my part.)

Did you make any customizations to the menu or are you running the stock menu which comes with Cinnamon?
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Re: Letters go missing on cinnamon menu

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Hi

Does not correspond with bleachbit, it acts up randomly every now and then regardless.

Didn't make any customization to the menu - I'm running stock menu that comes with Cinnamon.
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Re: Letters go missing on cinnamon menu

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tzell wrote: ⤴Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:16 pm it acts up randomly every now and then regardless.
Is it always the same letter which disappears?
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Re: Letters go missing on cinnamon menu

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I found this bugreport. It may be the cause somehow. There is no solution yet and I cannot find any work-arounds.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/6911

EDIT: sorry, I meant to paste this url: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-sh ... ssues/2389
The former is related though.
If you think the issue is solved, edit your original post and add the word solved to the title.
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Re: Letters go missing on cinnamon menu

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SMG wrote: ⤴Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:28 pm Is it always the same letter which disappears?
Excellent question, will pay attention closer next time it happens.
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