On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 20:38:31 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:
So who knows where besides ~/.config/google-chrome
google-chrome will get information? Because something
about my user screws it up even when I try to start
from scratch with no saved profile.
Amazing! I actually found it. ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
had this stuff in it (for years and years and years in
order to make fonts look better when fedora was going
through a long "spindly" phase for fonts):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>none</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
Renaming that file allows Oswald to render correctly.
What it is about Oswald (and no other fonts I checked)
that makes it screw up so badly, I have no idea.
It doesn't happen in firefox even though that fonts.conf
file would (I imagine) affect it as well.