Bug 356783 - Text in Plasma tooltips sometimes becomes a series of smudgy blocks
Summary: Text in Plasma tooltips sometimes becomes a series of smudgy blocks
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Panel (show other bugs)
Version: 5.4.3
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG...
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Reported: 2015-12-16 15:57 UTC by Janek Bevendorff
Modified: 2022-02-06 17:18 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Smudgy text blocks (117.11 KB, image/png)
2015-12-16 15:58 UTC, Janek Bevendorff 		Details
Screenshot (showing both monitors) with the blocky text (2.95 MB, image/png)
2016-03-16 13:17 UTC, Buck Shockley 		Details
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Description Janek Bevendorff 2015-12-16 15:57:48 UTC 
This bug randomly happens. When I change to font from Oxygen Sans to something else, it goes away, but comes back when I change the font back to Oxygen Sans. Not sure if it really has something to do with the font, though.

I attached an image that shows how it looks.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Janek Bevendorff 2015-12-16 15:58:13 UTC 
Created attachment 96131 [details]
Smudgy text blocks
Comment 2 Christian Stadelmann 2016-01-24 11:20:44 UTC 
Previous bug #355677 was closed as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.
I had the same issue sporadically appear for months with gnome-shell on X11. There are several bug reports in Fedora's bugzilla for it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742776 , especially attachment https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742776#attach_550877 .
This issue has gone for me, but I don't know why. Maybe an update in some font rendering library. You could try changing your hinting settings, that sometimes helped.
Comment 3 Christian Stadelmann 2016-01-24 11:22:42 UTC 
Also have a look at bug #356680, with upstream bugs https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42386 and https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-36976
Comment 4 Buck Shockley 2016-03-16 13:16:46 UTC 
This also happens to me, but usually in the Menu as opposed to anywhere else. This is on the latest Nvidia drivers.
Comment 5 Buck Shockley 2016-03-16 13:17:27 UTC 
Created attachment 97925 [details]
Screenshot (showing both monitors) with the blocky text
Comment 6 Patrick Rudolph 2017-02-21 14:10:36 UTC 
Still present in Plasma 5.8.4.
The kickoff plasmoid shows the same rendering errors as in attachment 97925 [details], while the kicker plasmoid is fine.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2019-11-04 20:54:35 UTC 
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-36976
Comment 8 galder 2022-02-06 17:18:22 UTC 
*** Bug 441477 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***