Incorrect text display
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Re: Incorrect text display
damm your fonts are messed up, what did you do? show a snap of your font settings
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Re: Incorrect text display
This is current. Problem arose while using default font. Switched to Century Schoolbook because, along with zoom, the text is more legible. BTW, the defect appeared without any input from me. Note that in parts of the FF menu, as seen here, some text displays correctly.
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i didn't mean firefox settings, mint font settings
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Re: Incorrect text display
System font s/shot:
Last month, the mouse died a gradual death, unrecognized until it stopped responding, but I noticed and corrected some oddball errors at that time. No idea what else needs to be fixed.
Also realized that screenshots I have posted here have been huge, but they don't appear as such on my own screen when I open them.
Just tried an experiment- we have had only one user to date, but when I created a new user, text etc. displays normally. This seems to tell me that the problem is in the original user home directory. Last month, the mouse died a gradual death, unrecognized until it stopped responding, but I noticed and corrected some oddball errors at that time. No idea what else needs to be fixed.
Also realized that screenshots I have posted here have been huge, but they don't appear as such on my own screen when I open them.
Re: Incorrect text display
locate fonts.conf
you installed some fonts or changed a configuration somewhere-
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Re: Incorrect text display
The result of your command:
steve@steve-Inspiron-519:~$ locate fonts.conf
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
/etc/ghostscript/fontmap.d/10gsfonts.conf
/home/steve/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
/timeshift/snapshots/2019-11-28_17-32-51/localhost/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/timeshift/snapshots/2019-11-28_17-32-51/localhost/etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
/timeshift/snapshots/2019-11-28_17-32-51/localhost/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
/timeshift/snapshots/2019-11-28_17-32-51/localhost/etc/ghostscript/fontmap.d/10gsfonts.conf
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gsfonts.conffiles
steve@steve-Inspiron-519:~$
I don't know what this is telling me...
I see a date here 11/28- but this problem arose just before Christmas.
steve@steve-Inspiron-519:~$ locate fonts.conf
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
/etc/ghostscript/fontmap.d/10gsfonts.conf
/home/steve/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
/timeshift/snapshots/2019-11-28_17-32-51/localhost/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/timeshift/snapshots/2019-11-28_17-32-51/localhost/etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
/timeshift/snapshots/2019-11-28_17-32-51/localhost/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
/timeshift/snapshots/2019-11-28_17-32-51/localhost/etc/ghostscript/fontmap.d/10gsfonts.conf
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gsfonts.conffiles
steve@steve-Inspiron-519:~$
I don't know what this is telling me...
I see a date here 11/28- but this problem arose just before Christmas.
Re: Incorrect text display
show what you have for
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xed $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
Re: Incorrect text display
Post the content of the fonts.conf file that trytip mentioned.Slowpoke47 wrote: ⤴Mon Jan 06, 2020 6:22 am System font s/shot:System fonts.png
Just tried an experiment- we have had only one user to date, but when I created a new user, text etc. displays normally. This seems to tell me that the problem is in the original user home directory.
Do you have a hi-res monitor? Post output ofAlso realized that screenshots I have posted here have been huge, but they don't appear as such on my own screen when I open them.
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inxi -G
Please edit your original post title to include [SOLVED] if/when it is solved!
Your data and OS are backed up....right?
Your data and OS are backed up....right?
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Re: Incorrect text display
Just now able to get back here. Earlier I misstated the problem onset, my apology- not around Christmas- started a week ago.
Don't believe this monitor is anything special.
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steve@steve-Inspiron-519:~$ xed $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
steve@steve-Inspiron-519:~$ inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] driver: radeon v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: ati,radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1440x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RS780 (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.15.0-72-generic LLVM 8.0.0)
v: 3.3 Mesa 19.0.8
steve@steve-Inspiron-519:~$
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Re: Incorrect text display
Time to cut my losses on this- currently setting up a second Admin account which will eventually replace the corrupted one. I'll need to move the data from the old into the new, and replicate the settings as well.
So far, the new account displays correctly. Should have done this before agonizing over forensic analysis. Perhaps more experienced users will point out any holes in this strategy, for which, thanks in advance.
So far, the new account displays correctly. Should have done this before agonizing over forensic analysis. Perhaps more experienced users will point out any holes in this strategy, for which, thanks in advance.
Re: Incorrect text display
your fonts.conf is quite messed up there is no antialias and hintstyle is none.
so if you create a new user then be sure not to make the same mistake that replaced your fonts.conf because you will be right back here.
navigate to .config/fontconfig in your file manager , rightclick on fonts.conf and compress (to back it up temporary) and replace with this:
save and then in Terminal you need to refresh fonts cache with:
reboot. if fonts are the same there are more configs somewhere that either you changed or some application did
PS: next time do not post a picture of the text, but select all text copy and paste it here in a code bracket
so if you create a new user then be sure not to make the same mistake that replaced your fonts.conf because you will be right back here.
navigate to .config/fontconfig in your file manager , rightclick on fonts.conf and compress (to back it up temporary) and replace with this:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="embeddedbitmap"><bool>false</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint"> <bool>false</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting"> <bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba"><const>rgb</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
sudo fc-cache -fv
reboot. if fonts are the same there are more configs somewhere that either you changed or some application did
PS: next time do not post a picture of the text, but select all text copy and paste it here in a code bracket
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Re: Incorrect text display
If I had a clue about how I got to that point, I would have some chance of undoing the damage. At my newbie level, I'm better off to start over. So far, so good. If I need to go back and continue the effort to repair the damaged user account, I'll refer back to this thread and your post.trytip wrote: ⤴Tue Jan 07, 2020 10:41 am your fonts.conf is quite messed up there is no antialias and hintstyle is none.
so if you create a new user then be sure not to make the same mistake that replaced your fonts.conf because you will be right back here.
PS: next time do not post a picture of the text, but select all text copy and paste it here in a code bracket
I have learned about posting code here, but since that display looked to me like a gui display, I didn't think the copy/ paste would work, so I didn't try it.
Many thanks for your assistance and patience.
Re: Incorrect text display
I suppose it's worth a shot copying the fonts.conf file from the new account to the original one & taking ownership of it there with
sudo chown $USER:$USER ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
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Re: Incorrect text display
Thanks for the suggestion. Is this reversible in case I screw things up further?
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It is, if you need to, as long as you make a backup of the file you are replacing before you copy the new one there. I tend to make a backup of such files by copying it to e.g. fonts.conf.old (in the same directory) so if things go awry, you can remove the new file & then remove the .old from the backup.
Terminal commands to do so would be:
cp ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf.old
to make the copy.Then if you need to restore it
rm ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
followed by mv ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf.old ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
. You can of course use your file manager to do this e.g. Nemo.Dell Inspiron 1525 - LM17.3 CE 64-------------------Lenovo T440 - Manjaro KDE with Mint VMs
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Re: Incorrect text display
Thank you. As a newbie I'm somewhat terminal-challenged, but if I get my courage up I'll try it.
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You're welcome. As for Terminal, I use it all the time but it's entirely up to you if/when you want to explore it. I (along with a number of others on here) just find it easier to post Terminal commands for stuff like this plus I'm not sure which desktop environment you are using, hence my guess at Nemo for the file manager.
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