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[mib2berlin]

@ngamradt
You are welcome.
No, you cant watch the bug tracker it is not public.
As far as I know this is an issue with Intel Xe GPU on Linux, I don´t have any issues with Intel, AMD and former Nvidia GPU´s on Opensuse so I cant test or verify any report in the tracker.

Next release change to Chromium 110, may you check in again to Vivaldi at this time.

Have nice holly days and cheers, mib

[dagurp]

Are any of you using UI scaling (either in Vivaldi or Linux)?

This is only on Wayland, right?

[npro]

You can hope for better:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-New-Xe-Linux-Driver
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/112188/

[tomica]

@dagurp said in Broken text on tabs:

Are any of you using UI scaling (either in Vivaldi or Linux)?

This is only on Wayland, right?

I am not using UI scaling, and I am not on Wayland, I'm on Xorg. The same issues exist.

[alejodelosriosvivaldi]

@AmazingKitchen Thanks, it worked for me on Ubuntu 22.10 64-bit Dell Inc. Precision 5560

[Persister]

I just installed Vivaldi on my new Linux Mint 21.1 OS. I finally have everything just they way I want it. And everything looks good! BUT I just realized that the text is garbled in my tabs. I have never seen anything like this before! It's crazy!

I read through all of the comments on this page. And I'm surprised to see that this has been going on for quite awhile! Why?!! This should have been fixed a long time ago!!

I gave up on Vivaldi about a year ago, because of some issues that weren't being addressed at the time. But I thought I would try it again. This issue is not making me feel very good about Vivaldi!!

[DoctorG]

@Persister mib2berlin said in Broken text on tabs:

@ingo-steinke
Hi, distro update should not change Vivaldi settings but maybe different GPU driver.
Open chrome://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization
I cant remember if you need to set it to enabled or disabled but you can check quickly.

Had you tried mib2berlin's advice?

With some GPUs and drivers Vivaldi can have issues.

[Persister]

@DoctorG - Disabling it worked! Vivaldi seems to be working fine. I played several videos from Bitchute and YouTube as well. The Tabs are now consistently readable.

vivaldi://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization

[DoctorG]

@Persister Sometimes enabling the flag helped, sometimes disabling.

Nice to read that you fixed it.

[maironcosta]

@DoctorG thank you, dude. this work for me. I just disable the "Use Hardware Acceleration". it was annoying me!

[fcalegario]

Disabling GPU rasterization worked for me, but Vivaldi perform poorly in some pages. Any chance to adress this problem in another way?

[levithanius]

Disabling hardware acceleration shouldn't be the solution. I don't have this issue on any other chromium-based browser.
Some Youtube videos are almost impossible to watch without hw acceleration.

Running Arch Linux with an Intel i7-1185G7 and Iris Xe GPU (Dell Latitude 7420).

[DoctorG]

@levithanius Welcome in forum

Had you tried with chrome://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization
Should be working to get better rendering of the text.
Disable GPU rasterization is not the same as disable hardware Acceleration.

[mib2berlin]

@levithanius
Hi, Vivaldi does not use the Chromium UI, this is maybe the reason why these issues appear for some user.
Works fine for me on two different systems with Opensuse Linux running hardware acceleration.

Did you test enable/disable vivaldi://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization ?

Cheers, mib

[levithanius]

@DoctorG @mib2berlin

Oh, my bad. I thought GPU rasterization = HW Acceleration. Sorry!
Yes, if I turn it off everything looks fine.
What are the disadvantages of turning it off though?

[DoctorG]

@levithanius Turning of GPU Rasterization?
Rendering of UI and webpages can be slower, depends on CPU.

[DoctorG]

Note for those who read some sepcial information on Software vs. GPU Rasterization in Chromium*

[levithanius]

@DoctorG Everything works great now and I even learned something new today. Thank you!

[DoctorG]

@levithanius Nice to read it helped you

[fcalegario]

@DoctorG Sadly it ins't a option for me. I use the Nextcloud's web client every day and its perform slowly without GPU rasterization