When attempting to use the GUI interface in GSR-UI, the program works fine but all the text's corrupted and unreadable, mostly just white right triangles and extremely squished text.
I've been having this issue for a few days now, and updating/rebooting the system did not fix this issue, hence why I'm posting here.
Attempting to search Google on this only lead me to people having issues trying to run the program in Wayland, which don't apply since I'm on X11-Xlibre on Xfce.
Here's a link to a relevant screenshot.
Not sure how much this helps, but I use an AMD GPU/CPU, and I'm on the Linux-zen kernel.

Last edited by kinker31 (Today 07:30:48)

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this has to be a XFCE4 issue or a linux-zen issue, or a combination of both since i share the same configuration as OP

xfce4 on linux-zen and AMD GPU/CPU and have this same issue. it is not resolved by downgrading mesa and Chrome/Chromium/Electron is unaffected in any case.

EDIT: this definitively is a font issue, changing them application's language to Japanese makes the kana and hiragana to render correctly and we know thats a different font., on the drop down list only japanese and chinese are render correctly.

screenshot set to japanese

Last edited by Nevada (2026-06-05 00:30:37)

my screenshot is the same as the OP, if i revert the apps language to english it will show the same behavior as OP.
as shown on this new screenshot

but the OPs screenshot tells me something else. the wallpaper hes using, thats the win95 install.bmp wallpaper. which tells me hes probably using the chicago95 theme pack. AS i am using.

so theres another thing we both have in common. i need to check chicago95's install process again because i recall something about fonts.

YES, i found the culprit.

Chicago95's uses a font to mimick the original Microsoft SanSerif. called cronyx-cyrillic. setting this font as system font as stated by the manual install process is what causes this weird corruption. selecting XFCE's default of open sans fixes the issue.

now we wait for OP to test this so we can mark this as solved.
in the meantime im gonna report this to the Chicago95 github.

Last edited by Nevada (2026-06-05 11:03:54)

I highly suspect this to be related to the fontconfig update nevertheless.
Try to downgrade to 2.17.x or remove /etc/fonts/conf.d/48-guessfamily.conf
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2300305

can confirm that downgrading fontconfig to 2.17.0 also fixes the issue.

deleting 48.guessfamily.conf does not.

yes, i did this after removing the conf file.  made no difference after a reboot.

Apologies for how long it took to get back to you, but downgrading to 2.17.0 does not fix the issue, and I don't have 48-guessfamily.conf where it'd normally be.
Is there a way I can change the font GPU Screen Recorder UI uses, just for that specific program?

Update: Yes there is, and all I had to do was add the following to my user fontconfig file:

    <match target="pattern">
        <test name="prgname" compare="eq">
            <string>gsr-ui</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
            <string>Microsoft Sans Serif</string>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <match target="pattern">
        <test name="prgname" compare="eq">
            <string>gsr-notify</string>
        </test>
        <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">
            <string>Microsoft Sans Serif</string>
        </edit>
    </match>

Seems like any bitmap font doesn't work for GSR-UI for the time being, so I'll go ahead and mark this as worked around.
EDIT: Additional block of code for the notifs too, since those are on a separate program.

Last edited by kinker31 (Today 07:50:19)

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