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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong font displayed in opera
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:28:13
Message-Id: 4FF47CBB.10603@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong font displayed in opera by Paul Hartman
1 Am 2012-07-04 19:04, schrieb Paul Hartman:
2 > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Strange issue on my thinkpad:
5 >>
6 >> When I run the opera browser the menu font is displayed as Comic Sans
7 >> (no, I am not working at CERN ;-) ) even when it is SET as Droid Sans
8 >> Mono in the settings.
9 >>
10 >> I double-checked the operaprefs.ini, I even rsynced over my .opera from
11 >> another machine where the same opera-release does not behave this way.
12 >>
13 >> Re-emerging the droid-fonts didn't fix it.
14 >>
15 >> What could be the reason? revdep-rebuild checked, yes.
16 >>
17 >> ~amd64, btw
18 >>
19 >> Should I compare the font-files ... ?
20 >>
21 >> Thanks, Stefan, scratching head ...
22 >
23 > Apparently Opera 12 contains a new Font Engine and there are many
24 > reports of people having font issues. Basic answers are try to disable
25 > hardware acceleration in Opera (it is disabled by default), use a
26 > different font/remove the misbehaving font from your system, or
27 > downgrade to Opera 11 until they improve the new version.
28 >
29 > None of that really explains why you have one system that works and
30 > one that doesn't, of course. I suggest you file a support request/bug
31 > report with Opera, since they are the only ones who can fix their
32 > program.
33
34 Thanks a lot, Paul, for this information.
35
36 I will consider filing a bug there, or at least browse their bugzilla
37 (or equivalent) ...
38
39 hw-accel should be off, I never enabled it afaik.
40
41 Checked both settings, hw-accel and webgl, both were ON! Disabled,
42 restarted opera, same ugly font ...
43
44 We will see how things work out ...
45
46 thanks once more, Stefan