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Blurry text after upgrade to F22
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Description Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2015-05-27 16:40:19 CEST
Created attachment 6288 
Three screenshots of Terminal with LucidaTypewriter font

I use the "LucidaTypewriter Sans" font in Terminal, with size "9". After upgrade to Fedora 22 (to XFCE 4.12), the Terminal with the same font and the same configuration is blurry so much that it is barely readable.

When I go to Main menu -> Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts, check the "Custom DPI setting" checkbox and enter the value 95 or lower, the font becomes sharp again, but it is much smaller than it used to be.
 
According to xrandr, my display is 1280x800, 331x207 mm (which is indeed the real size of the display).

Attached are three screenshots of the XFCE terminal:
- the topmost one is Fedora 21, and this is how it used to look with "LucidaTypewriter Sans 9" font
- the middle one is how does it look like after upgrade to Fedora 22/XFCE 4.12
- the bottom one is after manually setting the DPI value to 95 (readable, but too small)

I am reporting this against the Terminal package, but it might also be a bug somewhere deeper in the font rendering infrastructure. However, other texts displayed by the XFCE4 desktop environment (menus, labels, etc.) look OK. Only the LucidaTypewriter font in Terminal started to look this ugly after the upgrade.

How can I restore the previous appearance of the Terminal with the LucidaTypewriter font? Thanks!
Comment 1 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2015-05-27 16:48:05 CEST
More observations:

With manually configured resolution of 95 dpi, only the font size 9 looks sharp. When I increase the size to 10 or 11, the Terminal window becomes bigger, but also blurry as in the attachet screenshot.

In the Preferences -> Appearance tab of the Terminal, the text label in the button for selecting the font name is blurry even with "LucidaTypewriter Sans 9" settings, and with manually configured resolution of 95 DPI. This is probably because the font used in the button is always of the same size (10?).
Comment 2 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2015-05-27 21:51:23 CEST
Even more observations from another laptop:

- display resolution 1680x1050
- physical dimensions 331x307 mm
- terminal set to use "LucidaTypewriter Sans 12" font

After the upgrade to Fedora 22 looks blurry. Manually setting DPI in Main menu -> Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts to 86 DPI yields the same font as in the last screenshot from the original attachment to this bug, which is sharp but too small.
Comment 3 Igor editbugs 2019-03-10 00:14:43 CET
Hello, are you still experiencing the issue?
Comment 4 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2019-03-11 08:55:04 CET
Hello,

I am not able to reproduce this now, but I no longer have the same hardware. When I try to check/uncheck the checkbox "use custom DPI setting" in Main menu -> Settings -> Appearance, all texts on the screen _except_ the Terminal get redrawn with slightly different font size, but they are not blurry. As for Terminal, its windows remain exactly the same regardless of the "use custom DPI setting" checkbox.

So I guess it got fixed some time between Fedora 22 and Fedora 29, which is what I am running now.
Comment 5 Igor editbugs 2019-03-11 12:15:06 CET
Great, thank you!

Bug #11935

Reported by:
Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak
Reported on: 2015-05-27
Last modified on: 2019-03-11

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