Jeff is correct. Easy way to reproduce: take a short text file and view it in Gedit, making sure that all the text appears within the window, the font is fine. If you start resizing the window, the second a scroll bar appears (i.e. some of the text is hidden) the font becomes distorted.
Maybe this has something to do with the new Unity decorations? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290697 Title: Font rendering is broken Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Font rendering in Gedit (version 3.10.4) in Trusty is blurry. Fonts are rendered normally in other programs, such as LibreOffice Writer, Tomboy notes, and various system uses like title bars. See attached image, thanks. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1290697/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

