After updating Local by Flywheel to version 9.2.4, I’ve noticed that the UI text appears blurry — particularly in the sidebar. This issue wasn’t present in earlier versions (e.g., v9.2.2).
It might be related to a recent update in Electron or Chromium, as I’m seeing similar blurriness in the latest Slack release too, like this: Reddit - The heart of the internet
Is it possible to fix this? It’s really annoying to look at it now. Thanks.
Thanks for the report, @kowsar89!
I don’t see text issues on Ubuntu 24, but it may be graphics hardware or driver-specific if linked to the Electron update.
Curious: if you close Local, then launch it from the command line with the flag from that Reddit post, does it improve the appearance for you?
/opt/Local/local --disable-features=FontationsFontBackend
Yes, it does fix the issue. Here’s the same screenshot after launching Local with /opt/Local/local --disable-features=FontationsFontBackend:
That said, I’m not really comfortable using command line options for launching apps. Just wondering — given this, if this might be addressed in a future update?
Thanks for trying that, @kowsar89, and good to know it works around the issue.
Completely understand that you’d prefer not to launch Local like this every time, though.
if this might be addressed in a future update?
It sounds like it might relate to this bug in Fontations, which Chromium now uses for its font rendering backend:
Or in its dependency, Skia:
These patches seems to be currently in progress but it’s not clear if they’ve made it into Chromium/Electron yet:
Once those fixes are rolled into Chromium and then Electron, Local could resolve this via an Electron update.
