[Linux] Selected element turns font bold
Bug
Selecting a display pane (request/response) or an environment field for example, on Linux, renders that selected element in a bold typeface, but not a proper bold version if the font as the rendering is really rough. The theme is immaterial.
There also seems to be a rendering “lag” when focusing elements. Selecting the request for example turns that pane bold, then selecting the response will turn that bold and maybe 500ms-1s later, the request field will return to standard font-weight rendering. The same happens in env fields, etc.
I’ve tried both on Linux, Win10 and Win11 and this is only apparent on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04).
Linux2025.1.beta-x
Are you interested at all in trying to fix this? I’ve seen a couple other bugs like this on LInux but cannot reproduce. I have a feeling it’s something to do with Ubuntu 22.04’s outdated webview library. (Yaak is built on Tauri, which renders everything in the host webview)
My guess is that it either has something to do with the chosen font, or it’s rendering a certain style (like transparency) that forces the view to switch from CPU to GPU rendering. To test this, I think you can disable GPU acceleration by starting the app with
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1but I have not yet tried.Thanks for the quick response Greg. The flag didn’t work for me, however, I had Gnome Tweaks installed and changing the
font antialiasingfromsubpixeltogreyscalehas resolved this for me. I doubt there’s much to fix here in this respect, but will add this screenshot in case it’s useful for anyone else.If there is something you can/want to do/try your side, I’d be happy to test anything and offer feedback.. but as it is for me, this rendering solution resolves it.
https://yaak.app/blog/2025.2.0-beta.1
Awesome! Thank you Greg. I’ve just reverted the gnome tweaks setting I changed previously so back to defaults and the font appears to be rendering exactly as expected.. issue solved =)
https://yaak.app/blog/2025.2.0