# Overlapping characters

**URL:** <https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/overlapping-characters/1119>\
**Category:** Gnome\
**Created:** [September 10, 2023, 7:34am UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/overlapping-characters/1119 "2023-09-10T07:34:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![sersldmir](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/sersldmir/32/811_2.png) [@sersldmir](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/sersldmir)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 7:34am UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/overlapping-characters/1119/1 "2023-09-10T07:34:21Z")

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Hi! Running Gnome 44.4 on Linux 6.4.12-arch1-1

Is this overlapping fixable?

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/rebornos/original/1X/48cf8ecc09b53bb50d7f6665605d18fc718ed9df.png)

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**Author:** ![shivanandvp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/shivanandvp/32/10_2.png) [@shivanandvp](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/shivanandvp)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 7:38am UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/overlapping-characters/1119/2 "2023-09-10T07:38:46Z")

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Hi @sersldmir 🙂

Would you be able to provide the below information?

1. Which application is this?
2. Does this problem happen on other apps?
3. Does your desktop environment have a theme applied?
4. Have you changed the font or fractional scaling in the settings?

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**Author:** ![sersldmir](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/sersldmir/32/811_2.png) [@sersldmir](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/sersldmir)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/overlapping-characters/1119/3 "2023-09-10T19:32:53Z")

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1. Inbuilt settings app. It’s “Displays” options. The overlapping happens on confirmation on setting settings for several monitors
2. Haven’t noticed in other apps
3. Orchis theme applied.
4. Fractional scaling is untouched. Font - Inter Medium 14.

See the screen attached

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/rebornos/original/1X/9553c0b82b7b480426d40fefcaead2bc03389613.png)

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**Author:** ![shivanandvp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/shivanandvp/32/10_2.png) [@shivanandvp](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/shivanandvp)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/overlapping-characters/1119/4 "2023-09-10T20:14:02Z")

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Would you be able to do a test for me? Does this problem still appear if you disable your custom theme and if you change the font to 12pt size?

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**Author:** ![sersldmir](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/sersldmir/32/811_2.png) [@sersldmir](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/sersldmir)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/overlapping-characters/1119/5 "2023-09-10T20:36:38Z")

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Changed the font size - still appears. The theme cannot be disabled fully, even though i choose “default” in Gnome Tweaks. Probably it rewrote some config files

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**Author:** ![shivanandvp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/shivanandvp/32/10_2.png) [@shivanandvp](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/shivanandvp)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/overlapping-characters/1119/6 "2023-09-10T20:39:18Z")

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With no theme and standard font sizes, here is my screen shot of the same Gnome version:

 ![Screenshot from 2023-09-10 15-38-18](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/rebornos/original/1X/f42a5fcebcf39902d715cb2ea7b8ed8937339af5.png)

Maybe it is the font, but likely whatever changes were made on Gnome Tweaks caused the problem.

You may want to gradually rollback changes in Gnome Tweaks and see how this issue changes.

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**Author:** ![sersldmir](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/sersldmir/32/811_2.png) [@sersldmir](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/sersldmir)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/overlapping-characters/1119/7 "2023-09-10T20:44:57Z")

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Can you make a screenshot when changing smth in the Display settings so that the title changes to “Apply Display Changes”?

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**Author:** ![shivanandvp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/shivanandvp/32/10_2.png) [@shivanandvp](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/shivanandvp)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/overlapping-characters/1119/8 "2023-09-10T21:07:05Z")

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![Screenshot from 2023-09-10 16-06-50](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/rebornos/original/1X/0d02bc793da1123a256ca4e9223fc019cd36fa35.png)

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**Author:** ![sersldmir](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/sersldmir/32/811_2.png) [@sersldmir](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/sersldmir)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/overlapping-characters/1119/9 "2023-09-10T21:09:37Z")

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Okay, definitely a theme issue. Thanks!