Solved Ugly fonts rendering pixelated

mfoacs

mfoacs

I recently reinstalled FreeBSD after a hardware change and I have now ugly and pixelated fonts.
System reports
Code: 
FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC
Sway WM 1.10.1
nvidia-drm-61-kmod-570.124.04.1402000_1

Fonts look ok in some applications, but otherwise pixelated on most:

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Here are the contents of .Xressources:

Code: 
! FONTS
! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Xft.antialias:  1
Xft.hinting:    1
Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight
Xft.dpi:        96
Xft.rgba:       rgba
Xft.lcdfilter:  lcddefault
Xft.autohint:   1

gkt-3/settings.ini
Code: 
[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true
gtk-button-images=true
gtk-cursor-theme-name=breeze_cursors
gtk-cursor-theme-size=24
gtk-decoration-layout=icon:minimize,maximize,close
gtk-enable-animations=true
gtk-font-name=Noto Sans,  11
gtk-icon-theme-name=breeze-dark
gtk-menu-images=true
gtk-modules=colorreload-gtk-module:window-decorations-gtk-module
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=true
gtk-sound-theme-name=ocean
gtk-theme-name=Breeze
gtk-toolbar-style=3
gtk-xft-dpi=98304

sway/config:
Code: 
output * subpixel bgr
output * render_bit_depth 10
output * adaptive_sync off
output DP-3 resolution 5120x1440@144hz pos 0 0 enable

The same happens on XFCE4 on Wayland.

How do I fix it?
 
Hmm, I had already rebuilt fontconfig WITHOUT BITMAPS, but I had indeed a bunch of bitmaps fonts installed.
I removed it all, restarted the session, but I see not improvement:

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Did you also disable embeddedbitmap via fonts-conf(5)? It's separate from regular bitmap fonts. Otherwise, you'd need to debug fontconfig:
Code: 
$ fc-match monospace
$ fc-match sans-serif
$ fc-match serif
$ fc-match -v | egrep '(alias|bitmap|outline)'

Beware, some X11 applications don't support fontconfig or prefer legacy X11 font rendering. If this is undesired make sure Xwayland only has "built-ins" in the font path.
Code: 
# List of font directories that may be used for server-side rendering (doesn't support antialising)
$ xset q | sed -n '/Font Path/,/:/p'
 
Embedded bitmaps are disabled:

Code: 
$ fc-match -v | egrep '(alias|bitmap|outline)'
    antialias: True(w)
    outline: True(s)
    embeddedbitmap: False(w)

However, font directories for server-side rendering are present, I guess leftovers of the bitmap fonts I had installed before?
Code: 
$ xset q | sed -n '/Font Path/,/^ /p'
Font Path:
  /usr/local/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/local/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/local/share/fonts/OTF/,/usr/local/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/local/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/local/share/fonts/75dpi/,catalogue:/usr/local/etc/X11/fontpath.d,built-ins

Is it safe to remove those?
 
Some of those font directories (like TTF and OTF) may be used by non-bitmap fonts. Empty ones with just fonts.* files are safe to remove. Before removing you can test by disabling X11 fonts (except embedded) for the currently running Xwayland instance:
Code: 
$ xset fp= built-ins
$ xlsfonts
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
6x13
cursor
fixed
 
Unfortunately, no luck:

Code: 
$ xset fp= built-ins

$ xlsfonts
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
6x13
cursor
fixed

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I rebuilt Sway WITHOUT X11 support and the result is the same!?!
 
dandelion said:
What launcher is that? Can you reproduce with something like pango-view(1)? For one, gtk-font-name has no effect on non-Gtk apps but you've never shown fc-match(1) output for aliases like monospace, sans-serif, serif.
Click to expand...
The launcher is x11/wofi
My mistake, I forgot to report on the results of fc-match:
Code: 
$ fc-match monospace && fc-match sans-serif && fc-match serif
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
DejaVuSerif.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Book"

And this is the result of pango-view :

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It turns out, it was a silly mistake: when restoring the dotfiles, I intentionally omitted.gtkrc-2 wrongly assuming that gtk3 and gtk4 applications would take precedence on font rendering. That is clearly not the case, which explains why some applications looked just fine while others didn't.
 
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