Bug 356444

Summary:	Fonts on the rigth side of the font manager appear without smoothed edges
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	slartibart70
Component:	kcm_fontinst	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	wbauer1
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.5.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description slartibart70 2015-12-09 17:01:22 UTC

Open font manager from systemsettings and look at the preview fonts (right hand side) after selecting one fint from the list.
The preview does not take any smoothing into account, has rough edges and looks just ugly.
Instead, using the same font in other applications (i.e. libreOffice), everything is rendered nicely (smooth edges, subpixel rendering and the like is working as it should)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 slartibart70 2015-12-14 12:43:13 UTC

could this be in virtualbox and vmware only?
I tested with physical hardware (intel laptop, intel graphics) and there it's ok.
The error can still be seen in the virtualized environments.

Comment 2 slartibart70 2015-12-17 23:30:39 UTC

Also happens on a laptop with (older) amd graphics without additional amd drivers. I suspect the xrender engine being responsible for the problem?

Comment 3 Wolfgang Bauer 2016-04-15 18:45:11 UTC

Seems to be the same as Bug#336089, which should be fixed in 5.5.4...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 336089 ***