Re: GNUstep graphical elements missing text on Aarch64

[Fred Kiefer]

> Am 24.08.2019 um 03:07 schrieb Patryk Laurent via Gnustep-dev 
> <address@hidden>:
> 
> On Aug 22, 2019, at 22:30, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Could you please provide some details about your system? 
>> 
>> Am 23.08.2019 um 01:20 schrieb Patryk Laurent via Gnustep-dev 
>> <address@hidden>:
>> 
>>> On Aarch64 when I run graphical GNUstep apps, the graphical windows and 
>>> elements appear but there is no text (except for on the titlebar).  
> 
> I am happy to report that GNUstep graphics/text work perfectly under a 
> different Linux distribution on my Aarch64 Pinebook -- the Armbian 
> distribution to be precise. 
> 
> The problem seems to be with the Pinebook's KDE Neon distribution's X server 
> configuration.
> 
> I also confirmed that GNUstep graphics/text work well when served over X 
> remotely from an Amazon a1.large Aarch64 instance. 

Great to know it works with a different Linux system. Still we should try to 
get text output working on this specific KDE instance. Could you please try to 
set the default value GSFontHinting to 33. This may be a totally unrelated 
issue but Riccardo had problem with font hinting and that value resolved the 
issue. I normally edit my NSGlobalDomain.plist directly, but there is also the 
„defaults“ tool to help you with that:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontHinting 33

If this doesn’t help use


defaults delete NSGlobalDomain GSFontHinting 

to remove this value again.

Fred