Solved Broken text on tabs

[npro]

@exist2resist Interesting. Today there has been a Snapshot update, you 're talking about it? Do you also have Intel Xe Graphics? If so, try an older kernel since you 're saying it was running ok with F35.

Or try disabling just the rasterization with --disable-gpu-rasterization.

[dhruv8sh]

Tab names are scrambled until I hover over them. Seems like English is overlay-ed with some other language, or just somewhat offset English itself. Tab names as a result are unreadble.

Example:

[guigirl]

@dhruv8sh Did you search the forum before posting? There's already lots of discussion on this.

[fmerenda]

@DoctorG said in Broken text on tabs:

@zesko said in Bad reading inactive tabs in Gnome 42 Wayland:

I disabled --enable-gpu-rasterization in the flags

This fixed it for me, also. Sparky Linux rolling distribution.

[davidbond]

Hi,
Since updating to ubuntu 22.04 i have noticed that in vivalid (5.2.2623.41 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit) ) the text in the tabs can be scrambled.
Hovering over the tab sometimes has the text appear ok, moving the scrambling to another tab (multiple can be scrambled, some more than others).

Hover over the Ansible update tab:

I was thinking it could be a driver problem, but it only happens in vivaldi.

Thanks

[DoctorG]

@davidbond Seems Vivaldi has trouble with Ubuntu graphics driver.
Disable Settings → Webpage → Hardware Acceleration and restart
and all is fine.

[tomica]

Some text labels in Vivaldi's UI, notably Bookmark folders and site titles in tabs, get scrambled. I'm attaching a photo.

[npro]

@tomica What OS? Interesting... so it should be a "global" problem. CPU & GPU model? Iris Xe Graphics?

[tomica]

@npro oh yes, really sorry, I forgot to add that. I run Ubuntu 22.04 on Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 2021. The desktop environment is GNOME Shell 42.1, but I think the problem exists on other Ubuntu desktops available by default.

CPU & GPU model? Iris Xe Graphics?

I honestly have no idea what any of these are, sorry

[mib2berlin]

@tomica
Hi, try to disable hardware acceleration in settings > webpages, restart.
If it work then, it is a GPU/driver problem.

Cheers, mib

[tomica]

@mib2berlin disabling Hardware accelleration does seem to fix this problem, thank you very much.

I still feel I'm not any closer to resolving my issue.

1. When @mib2berlin says "it is a GPU/driver problem", what exactly about is the problem? Is it about the GPU or the driver?
2. How can I continue using Hardware accelleration without experiencing this issue?

[npro]

@tomica said in Bookmarks folder names are scrambled:

Dell XPS 13 2-in-1

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-xps-13-2-in-1-laptop/spd/xps-13-9310-2-in-1-laptop/mktx29310cto215h

Tech Specs
Processor
11th Generation Intel Core i5-1135G7 Processor (8MB Cache, up to 4.2 GHz)

Operating System
Windows 11 Home, English

Graphics Card
Intel Iris Xe Graphics

so... everything confirmed about your issue which others described here https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/75400/broken-text-on-tabs?page=1

Also:

CPU = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit

GPU = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit

[tomica]

@npro yes, right about everything except for the OS. My laptop does come with Windows installed, but I'm running Linux on it. And yes, the topic you shared is exactly my issue, thank you very much!

I do know what CPU and GPU stand for, I just had no idea which exact models my laptopt has Thanks again!

[Dave123456]

Ever since Vivaldi 5, when I have multiple tabs open Al the tab text blends together. I've tried all the settings and a fresh install. No matter, I still have the issue. It I am on and Arch based distribution of the product on linux, specifically Garuda Linux Dr4g0nized, so it seems weird to me that I haven't encountered anyone else complaining of this issue, but I will include a screenshot of it hoping it gets ameliorated:

[Pesala]

@Dave123456 Take a look at this earlier thread and the thread linked to there. They may be the same issue.

[DoctorG]

@tomica Try to get latest driver from Intel website.

[tomica]

@DoctorG thanks for the suggestion. Installing drivers on Linux is waaaay more difficult than in Windows I'm afraid I am stuck until a newer Linux kernel is published with new drivers - no way am I gonna try to compile the kernel myself. I'd probably end up with a broken leg or something

[DoctorG]

@tomica Fiddling with Intel driver issues can be nasty and time consuming.
Better way: use modern (or backported) kernel, try latest Intel non-free firmware and other Intel non-free modules.

[npro]

@tomica Have you tried disabling just the rasterization with vivaldi-stable --disable-gpu-rasterization to see if it solves the scrambling? I know, well someone has to try it at some point, otherwise what are we all doing here?

[exist2resist]

It is definitely an intel graphics problem with Vivaldi, but only vivalid.
If I run it using discrete graphics card (nvidia) the issue goes away.
Running Fedora 36 here.