Can anyone explain why this suddenly started happening on my Firefox? Seemingly arbitrary flipping between font antialiasing strategies, sometimes with good kerning and other times with very bad kerning. This is also happening on some pages (most notably my Mastodon feed).
@bun Here's what my Gnome Tweaks font settings look like - Unsure if there is another place where I can change that.
@bun (also toggling that last option to true does not change any behavior)
@ckie I'm glad I'm not the only one. Sounds like it's worth trawling through bug reports and opening a new bug if I can't find anything entirely accurate.
And maybe if I'm feeling up to it, debugging...?
Because I really don't think I will get used to it...
@ckie Curious what your setup looks like, though, in case there are any commonalities.
@vv
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:103.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/103.0"
https://github.com/ckiee/nixfiles/blob/38e38e421198f424d5be08772cc6c0764c575dcd/modules/fonts.nix#L11
@ckie Here's the FF bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1645681
@vv oh, huh, I got so used to it I didn't notice it's gone on my machine
@ckie Spoke too soon, layers.acceleration.force-enabled=true did not help.
@ckie So, strangely, if I diasble hinting and set hintstyle to none in my fontconfig, I still have a mix between RGB and greyscale AA, but the weird font spacing and flickering seems to go away. So perhaps that is what changed when I installed the KDE packages.
@ckie I found https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1883369 which seems to be a similar issue to mine (not sure why it's reported as an Ubuntu bug but shrug)