Bad anitaliasing in canvas
Hello,
I am trying to use the MuseScore AppImage on an Arch Linux installation.
I had to use the -D flag to manually set the DPI of my 1440p monitor, but, after doing so, one issue remains:
all non text elements in the canvas are terribly pixelated (see attached image).
I assured I had anti aliasing on and I checked for any errors from debug mode; however, the mode was already on and there were no error messages at all.
Any help is greatly appreciated
Specs:
OS - Arch Linux
DE - KDE Plasma with Xorg
MuseScore version - 3.6.2.54 AppImage
Monitor - 1440p with Display Port connection
DPI - set to 109 with the -D flag
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| blurry canvas.png | 51.59 KB |
Comments
Is this by chance a very tiny score (say, staff space size well under 1 mm) then viewed at a very zoom? I could imagine the music characters not scaling well in that case. What notation font? Can you attach the score?
In reply to Is this by chance a very… by Marc Sabatella
The staff space is over 1mm by a small bit and it looks pixelated at all zoom levels. the notation font doesn't seem to matter when I change it, but it is currently Leland.
I will attach a score to this reply
In reply to The staff space is over 1mm… by JustMike05
All crystal clear here on all zoom levels on my Laptop with Linux Mint and MS 3.6.2 AppImage.
In reply to All crystal clear here on… by Pentatonus
I noticed this as well on my laptop (with mint), but , on my main machine, I am running Arch Linux.
This issue is constant across both Arch and every derivative I have tried MS on, so, though I am not sure exactly what, It must have some thing to do with how MS and Arch interact
In reply to I am running Arch Linux… by JustMike05
You wrote:
I noticed this as well on my laptop...
Do you mean as video output to the 1440p monitor?
Earlier you mentioned this spec for the bad antialiasing:
Monitor - 1440p with Display Port connection
DPI - set to 109 with the -D flag
Are you running the laptop's display to the 1440p monitor, or does the laptop's screen itself also show the bad antialiasing?
In reply to You wrote: I noticed this as… by Jm6stringer
Any instance of KDE Plasma, at any resolution, that is scaled at any % besides 100, 200, or 300 will show this issue
Hmm...
Your attached score looks fine to me, although compared to your "blurry canvs.png" it appears to be a different score. Compare measures 13 - 16 of each.
In reply to Hmm... Your attached score… by Jm6stringer
The effect is score independent.
It occurs regardless of which score is opened and I am fairly certain it is an issues with musescore itself (as in how musescore interacts with arch linux)
In reply to The effect is score… by JustMike05
More likely an issue with the interaction between MuseScore, Arch Linux, and your display driver specifically. Is the driver completely up to date?
In reply to More likely an issue with… by Marc Sabatella
Yes. I have recently downloaded the latest version of my display drivers.
Could it be a configuration issue?
In reply to Yes. I have recently… by JustMike05
Could be just about anything, really - I haven't heard of this issue occurring before (and there are many users on Arch Linux), so it does indeed seem likely to be something about your system configuration.
In reply to Could be just about anything… by Marc Sabatella
I see.
Well, for whatever it may help, I am running a Nvidia 3070 on a KDE Plasma Arch Install with a 1440p screen.
I tried using Musescore on some live USB I happen to have lying around. On both Linux Mint and a non KDE arch derivative, the canvas rendered fine.
I then tried it on a non KDE arch derivative and a non Arch KDE based distro.
They all worked.
I will likely poke around my settings, but any tips where to start looking would be appreciated
In reply to I see. Well, for whatever it… by JustMike05
Something display related, that's really the best I can guess. Well, one other longshot: try a value of 100 rather than 109 for your "-D" option. Practically the same thing, but maybe the issue is actually being caused by that scaling resulting in fractional values that aren't handled well.
In reply to Something display related,… by Marc Sabatella
I was able to sort of fix the issue by changing my global scaling. At 100% or 200%, the issue is not existent regardless of the value I give to -D. However, for any global scaling in between, regardless of how I set -D, the issue is present.
For example, if I have Global Scaling set to 200%, KDE forces global DPI to 192. When this is the case, the issues never appears with any DPI value.
I'll have to search around to figure out what all happens when you change global scaling, but the only other thing that could maybe be helpful is this error message I get running MuseScore without a -D value