Re: GNUstep graphical elements missing text on Aarch64

[Patryk Laurent]

Thank you Fred — I gave this hinting setting a try both under the KDE “plasma” 
window manager as well as under WindowMaker — but it didn’t make a difference.  
(I confirmed that the setting was saved by doing a defaults read.)

Patryk


> On Aug 25, 2019, at 23:45, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Am 24.08.2019 um 03:07 schrieb Patryk Laurent via Gnustep-dev 
>> <address@hidden>:
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>> On Aug 22, 2019, at 22:30, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> 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:
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> defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontHinting 33
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> If this doesn’t help use
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> defaults delete NSGlobalDomain GSFontHinting 
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> to remove this value again.
> 
> Fred