On 23.04.2016 01:38, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I upgraded thunderbird-bin from 38.7.0 to 45.0 and all window fonts > became extremely washed-out, thin and generally unreadable. I then wiped > the configuration files (mv ~/.thunderbird ~/tb_backup), but got the > same issue. > > I then wiped it again and emerged normal thunderbird (sans "-bin"), same > issue. > > I downgraded to 38.7.0 again, as the issue makes thunderbird virtually > unusable. > > Anyone else with the same problem? I searched a lot, but I didn't find > any reports for this, let alone a fix. > >
I had issues with firefox and ui fonts. Maybe the same happens with thunderbird. Have a look at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573400 > With Firefox 44 the UI font (but not any fonts used on web pages) is being > set to the wrong font variant due to linked Mozilla bug 1243226. Only the > first font variant found such as extralight rather than normal is being > considered for chosen system serif or sans-serif font. Bug has relevant patch > already applied to Firefox sources and is attached here. > > Workaround is to set "gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled" to > false.
