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[Solved?] Weird Font problems in desktop icons (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by some_random_nick@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hello everyone.

After I changed the default font in KDE Plasma 6.1.4 on Bazzite to Atkinson Hyperlegible, all desktop icons have weird line spacing in the name. Notice how .png is hanging behind tge icon for TextFile sh. Changing the font size does nothing. Only if I switch back to the defaults does it fix itself. Any idea how I can keep Atkinson as a font and fix this issue?

Edit: In edit mode (right click on desktop) I can set the Text lines to 1 which makes things bearable. Still no way to manage the weird spacing issue. Seems that not all icon are affected. Couldn't find a pattern.

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[-] placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

It looks like the png is getting word wrapped. Line spacing is so large that the png on the second line is getting pushed into the space of the icon below, and the icon below is given a higher Z value, so it goes over it. The different font has a different letter width and can influence the line spacing by being taller than the original font.

See if you can find an option to reduce line spacing or an option to increase icon spacing (vertical or horizontal). I would expect these to be advanced settings though. Iirc, most Linux desktops don't use ellipses on long names, like some other operating systems (macOS iirc).

[-] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

The KDE system settings have no such option :-/ All my google results for line spacing are regarding the terminal, non for my case. I guess there is some config file somewhere that I can edit, but sine I am still nee to Linux, I jave no idea where to start.

[-] nyan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Or, if you can't find any of those other settings, try decreasing the font size by 1 pt or 1-2 px (not sure what unit KDE6 uses for font sizes) and see if that works better with the new font's letter widths and kerning.

[-] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I tried reducing the font size to no avail. Seems it's the fonts fault.

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