Font Rendering Issue on Steam Client (Linux)
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Steam client on linux have font rendering issue. Attached is how it looks like:
Linux Mint Tara 19, Cinnamon Desktop, running on Nvidia GPU with nvidia driver.
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@hjsam Thanks for the report, we'll take a look
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Is the issue reproducible on other distro? Because if not, I suspect it has something to do with installed font.
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I am experiencing the same issue on Ubuntu 18.04, also with Nvidia GPU and
nvidiadriver.
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A workaround is turning off subpixel antialising.
I found similar artifacts in the font rendering in this issue.
https://github.com/electron/libchromiumcontent/issues/384
The libchromiumcontent issue links to this one, which describes why this happens:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/skia/issues/detail?id=6663
With a recent change, FreeType no longer adds LCD padding by default, but only when this is necessary. This changes the bitmap offset and size.
Maybe a solution could be to update the bundled version of Chromium/NW.js?