Bug 387328

Summary:	Squished fonts
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	John <ramsdenj>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	investigated, triaged
Version First Reported In:	5.11.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Taskbar of laptop with squished fonts compared to desktop. Laptop showing settings with squished font. Desktop with settings open with normal fonts.

Description John 2017-11-26 20:37:27 UTC

Recently my fonts started appearing to be squished. I'm using a high DPI 4k screen and I'm setting my DPI from sddm with 'EnableHiDPI=true' and in '.Xresources'.

I filed a related bug that was solved in SDDM, but my fonts still look wonky.

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/943

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2017-11-26 22:14:52 UTC

and you get me again...

The SDDM config EnableHiDPI only changes SDDM.
Please show what you're doing in .Xresources and include a screenshot.

Is the "desktop theme" settings in system settings also "wonky" ?

Comment 2 John 2017-11-27 00:36:53 UTC

Created attachment 109069 [details]
Taskbar of laptop with squished fonts compared to desktop.

Comment 3 John 2017-11-27 00:41:03 UTC

Created attachment 109070 [details]
Laptop showing settings with squished font.

Comment 4 John 2017-11-27 00:41:47 UTC

Created attachment 109071 [details]
Desktop with settings open with normal fonts.

Comment 5 John 2017-11-27 00:42:12 UTC

The only thing I'm doing in '.Xresources' is setting the font dpi:

$ cat ~/.Xresources
Xft.dpi: 288

It seems like everything related to the shell has squished, or tall text. So that includes the settings menus.

I took screenshots comparing my laptop, the one with the squished fonts, to my desktop. They are both configured the same way. The one with the squished fonts is on top.

I also included full screenshots with both of them with the settings menu open.

Comment 6 John 2017-12-01 00:45:12 UTC

So i was getting quite frustrated with the font issue and rolled back to a snapshot I had before the font bug happened. That seems to have gotten rid of the issue, so it must have been some sort of weird setting I added while adjusting my HiDPI settings. For now the problem seems to be gone so I guess this issue can be closed. 

Thanks for your help.

Comment 7 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-19 14:28:52 UTC

This bug has had its resolution changed, but accidentally has been left in NEEDSINFO status. I am thus closing this bug and setting the status as RESOLVED to reflect the resolution change.