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Current `fonts.conf` for my account:
* Prefer Noto over Cantarell and Roboto
* Force ☹ to be emoji
* Enable hinting and anti-aliasing on non-Emoji fontsThunderbird still looks a little odd, but hopefully I just need to undo a setting somewhere.
https://dev.ibboard.co.uk/repos/other/linux/file/3653bffd7496/fonts.conf
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I think… I may have tracked it down!
GTK3 doesn't seem to like 13.3333px (which is 10pt). Round it to 13px and everything goes back to the right size!
I wonder what part of fonts-config made it stop rounding 🤔
Edit: Using "Tweak Tool" to set the UI font size to 9.75 gets me exactly 13px, which looks almost the same EXCEPT that it's not stretched on GTK3!
GTK4 is fractionally smaller, but it's better than the way GTK3 was too tall.
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I'm fairly sure that font config on Linux is one of those dark arts that people have to sell their soul for.
I'm adding overrides based on Arch Wiki recommendations and other things and half of the time nothing is changing. And nothing in the font config tools is interpretable as "we took this font because this rule said to take it".
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It _might_ be a GTK3 thing?
GTK Inspector is reporting the font size as 13.33334px.
If I take screenshots of Rhythmbox and over-type on the tree view in Gimp with 13px text then the height is out by a pixel without descenders, and two with descenders but the width is right.
If I take screenshot of Tuba and over-type in Gimp then the height is right in the home timeline but the width is too narrow.