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CharlesV wrote: Tue Apr 22, 2025 5:27 pm
Not sure how much of a difference it will make in KDE, but in XFCE adding stem darkening made a serious difference in my systems, and I believe I got that tip from a KDE user.
Create the following file: /etc/environment.d/90font-stem-darkening.conf
with contents of:
ostrog wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 1:17 pm
You ignored my inquiry about flatpak. As I said the MX Package Installer doesn't let me install/maintain my user flatpaks because it insists on using system flatpaks. To circumvent this I used Discover which uses the user flatpak repo. So why doesn't the MX Package Installer allow that?
Who is 'you' in the above context?
You of course. When it's not mentioned who it's referred to, it's always refereed to the last post.
You're right. I did ignore it because I don't use KDE and any advice I could offer on that DE would be speculation at best.
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In Linux, newer isn't always better. The best solution is the one that works.
I did some test in a VM and after several hours I found out that the entry "for actual user" must be selected, then the flatpak repo can be selected. What an unintuitive way. Also I need to manually remove the remote via command line. An installed runtime (a remnant of a program) blocked it. MXPI showed no error, no message, nothing, it just reverts everything back.
I still have the problem with the bad font. For some unknown reason it was temporarily fixed. I have no ideas what's causing this. I you have any ideas let me know, because otherwise I will need to do a reinstallation.
I reinstalled my system and it worked until I installed the Nvidia drivers. I knew it was Nvidia. 99% of the graphic problems I had in the past were related to Nvidia.
It must be the stuff in my home folder. I only found a nvidia-settings file, other than that there are no files which contains "nvidia".
I switched some Flatpaks to native version and on the native version the font is not coarse. So apparently it's a Flatpak problem.
I don't know how Flatpaks are integrated into the system, but I assume that there must be some misconfiguration there.
ostrog wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 6:25 am
I switched some Flatpaks to native version and on the native version the font is not coarse. So apparently it's a Flatpak problem.
I don't know how Flatpaks are integrated into the system, but I assume that there must be some misconfiguration there.
As far as I know Flatpaks normally aren't integrated into the system. They are a little painful. It's basically another OS running on your current Linux kernel.
ostrog wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 6:25 am
I switched some Flatpaks to native version and on the native version the font is not coarse. So apparently it's a Flatpak problem.
I don't know how Flatpaks are integrated into the system, but I assume that there must be some misconfiguration there.
As far as I know Flatpaks normally aren't integrated into the system. They are a little painful. It's basically another OS running on your current Linux kernel.
Interesting. I will try another distro to see if it works there.
