Font rendering issue in Swiftfox, Firefox, Ephiphany, Opera, Konqueror and Songbird
* My hardware/software details:
My monitor: a Samsung syncmaster 793df CRT
My graphics card: Power Color ATI 9600 Pro
Feisty fawn version: Ubuntu 2.6.20-15-generic (32 bit version. Patched from Beta to Final)
Graphics drivers installed: xserver-
* The problem itself:
About 1 week ago, my user profile became corrupted(the issue has now been fixed). Shortly after, Swiftfox had problems rendering fonts in certain websites like the Ubuntu forums, and various other forums and sites, etc.
At first, I thought this issue was exclusive only to Mozilla-based browsers like Ephiphany and Firefox, Swiftfox, etc. However, later I tried Opera and Konqueror and got this issue as well. Also, even Songbird has this issue as well.
However, other applications like OpenOffice, K3b, Ktorrent etc., etc. are not affected.
What do I mean when I say "Swiftfox had problems rendering fonts"?
"K", "W" and various other alphabets and numericals look slightly corrupted. Before my user profile became corrupted, my fonts looked really good!
Here is a screenshot of the problem.
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* Temporary workaround which only works for Firefox(but causes problems for me, sometimes):
Under "Edit==
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* What I have done so far, which didn't solve the problem at all:
1) Because my user profile became corrupted, I'd to create a new user profile. This did not solve the issue itself.
2) Created a new user profile for Firefox and Swiftfox, without copying any of my bookmarks and other user data.
3) Reinstalling Swiftfox and Firefox did nothing to solve this issue.
4) Under "System" ===> "Preferences" ====> "Font", these are screenshots of my Font configurations. I tried loading different font settings like "Font rendering: Best contrast/Best shapes", "Smoothing: Grayscale/None", "Hinting: None/Medium". "Subpixel order" only caused me more problems so I put it back to default: "RGB"
Font Preferences
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Font Preferences: Font rendering configurations
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5) When I first installed Feisty Fawn, I actually loaded certain font configurations to improve subpixel font rendering from this thread:
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The following lines were added into sources.list:
deb http://
deb-src http://
The files I upgraded were: libfreetype6, libcairo2 and libxft2
The settings in fontconfig-config were altered with the following commands: "sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config", "sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig".
The settings I used in fontconfig-config were: "Native, Always, No bitmapped fonts"
So, I commented out the following lines in sources.list by adding ## in front of them:
## deb http://
## deb-src http://
Then, I typed in Terminal:
"sudo aptitude install libfreetype6=
After the above files had been downgraded, I checked fontconfig to ensure font settings were back to default. Then, I restarted the pc. Still, no changes in the issue. :(
6) I've actually attempted to search for the fonts folder in Feisty LiveCD, so I could reinstall them. However, I could not locate it.
* My questions:
1) Does anyone know what else I can do to fix this issue? I really do not want to reinstall Ubuntu just because of this problem. And yet, asking for help in the Ubuntu forums didn't produce any solutions which worked.
2) Does anyone know what font ubuntuforums.org uses ? I'll try to reinstall the font myself and see if it's because the font became corrupted.
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