@Gerry I was going to try your suggestion, stop unity8 && start unity8 QML_USE_GLYPHCACHE_WORKAROUND=1. but it seems simply starting and stopping unity8 is unhappy on zesty atm
fwiw, my current setup I'm seeing this 100%, and i agree cache seems likely as first few windows are ok, but eventually text gets corrupt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1583088 Title: Randomly corrupt font / text / characters in Unity8 Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in gnome-desktop package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in qtmir package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Corrupted characters in text rendering, mainly in Unity8 window titlebars. I think this is a new issue. It only started happening (on xenial desktop) in the past month or two. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1583088/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp