Fonts look terrible since update.
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TheBrokenWorld
Fonts look terrible since update.
That's really all there is to it, text just looks terrible after doing updates recently. Any help is appreciated.
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Re: Fonts look terrible since update.
Hello, TheBrokenWorld.
You seem to have forgotten to provide the 2 most basic pieces of information needed to give a meaningful answer to your question:
Please, provide the complete screen output of the terminal command
Please, provide the list of software packages which were updated before the fonts changed their look.
Thank you.
Karl
You seem to have forgotten to provide the 2 most basic pieces of information needed to give a meaningful answer to your question:
Please, provide the complete screen output of the terminal command
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inxi -FxzThank you.
Karl
The people of Alderaan have been bravely fighting back the clone warriors sent out by the unscrupulous Sith Lord Palpatine for 771 days now.
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TheBrokenWorld
Re: Fonts look terrible since update.
Output from terminal (a few things omitted for the sake of anonymity):
I'm not sure how to post the update history without typing out the entire list.
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System: Kernel: 4.8.0-53-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.4.3 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
Distro: Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i5-2400S (-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 19954
clock speeds: max: 3300 MHz 1: 1616 MHz 2: 1699 MHz 3: 1627 MHz 4: 1700 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Desktop
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 12.0.6 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1 VX1 driver: USB-Audio Sound: ALSA v: k4.8.0-53-generic
Card-2 VIA driver: USB Audio usb-ID: 002-003
Drives: HDD Total Size: 256.1GB (11.9% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: INTEL_SSDSC2KW25 size: 256.1GB
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 273 Uptime: 45 min Memory: 6720.2/7889.5MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35 -
TheBrokenWorld
Re: Fonts look terrible since update.
Actually, everything looks a bit dithered now, graphics included.
Re: Fonts look terrible since update.
The relevant logfile is /var/log/dpkg.log. - The previous version of dpkg.log is named dpkg.log.1.TheBrokenWorld wrote: ⤴Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:04 pmI'm not sure how to post the update history without typing out the entire list.
It is a pure text file.
Each line begins with day and time. This should make it easy to identify the lines of the day when the updates were installed after which the fonts began to look dithered.
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TheBrokenWorld
Re: Fonts look terrible since update.
It's quite a list. Thanks for the help, btw.
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2018-03-04 23:14:18 startup archives unpack
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Re: Fonts look terrible since update.
Hi, TheBrokenWorld.
The list is only so long and confusing because dpkg logs every single step which it performs. The list of updated software packages was not so long after all.
There is no package which I would suspect to change how fonts are displayed. But maybe the gnome-themes-standard update made your system change a setting related to fonts rendering.
On Cinnamon the settings which I have in mind may be located in a slightly different location. Here on the xfce desktop the font settings are available this way:
System Settings > Appearance > Fonts
In the Fonts dialogue there are 2 settings which will impact how your fonts are rendered:
Regards,
Karl
The list is only so long and confusing because dpkg logs every single step which it performs. The list of updated software packages was not so long after all.
There is no package which I would suspect to change how fonts are displayed. But maybe the gnome-themes-standard update made your system change a setting related to fonts rendering.
On Cinnamon the settings which I have in mind may be located in a slightly different location. Here on the xfce desktop the font settings are available this way:
System Settings > Appearance > Fonts
In the Fonts dialogue there are 2 settings which will impact how your fonts are rendered:
- [X] Enable anti-aliasing
- Hinting: Slight
Possible values: None, slight, medium, full
Regards,
Karl
The people of Alderaan have been bravely fighting back the clone warriors sent out by the unscrupulous Sith Lord Palpatine for 771 days now.
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TheBrokenWorld
Re: Fonts look terrible since update.
I had tried playing around with the font settings before posting, nothing helped, I did find the solution though, and it's baffling me. I was trying to remember anything I had done recently which might affect my computer's display, and then I remembered that I had changed a setting on the monitor recently (I thought it purely affected the way colors were displayed). As far as I can tell, there was no change in resolution, but everything appeared as though the monitor wasn't operating in its native resolution. Very bizarre, sorry about this and thanks for the help.
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TheBrokenWorld
Re: Fonts look terrible since update.
So, it's not just the monitor, there is definitely a difference in the font style. If the updates did change the font, that's really annoying.