Windows not displaying characters p/g correctly

[getvictor]

Fleet version: <!-- Copy this from the "My account" page in the Fleet UI, or run fleetctl --version --> Fleet fleet-v4.49.0-25-gddaa8c9e2-dirty

Web browser and operating system: Microsoft Edge 124.0.2478.51 running on

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💥  Actual behavior

https://www.loom.com/share/f4fce81abbf047bc894558fb672081f7

🧑‍💻  Steps to reproduce

1. Use Fleet UI on Windows Edge
2. Go to Host Details page

🕯️ More info (optional)

N/A

[sharon-fdm]

Lucas: This could be a specific VM issue.

[getvictor]

I confirmed that I also see it on Chrome in Windows, and the issue goes away at higher/lower zoom levels: https://www.loom.com/share/b140b0f777254591bb4f6bea9261944b

[sharon-fdm]

Timebox to 2 pts. Raise a flag if needs more time.

[RachelElysia]

Not replicating on my Microsoft Edge, latest version.

Will download version 124.0.2478.51 and see if it was a version issue.

[RachelElysia]

Ok, now reproducing on Chrome as well on my Windows VM. >.< Looking into fix now.

[RachelElysia]

@getvictor

Are you also only seeing this bug on a VM running on Mac? So I was able to narrow this down and fix it as a VM display issue.

Before the fix, I was seeing the issue on both Chrome and FF, but only for "p" and "g" characters that were bolded. When I switched magnification, I saw it only on "n" characters.

Example of bug I was seeing:

I was able to fix it on my Win 10 VM by going to VMWare Fusion > Virtual Machine > Install VMWare tools and selecting Complete installation instead of Typical. This solution also made my entire Windows VM a lot clearer, not just on the Fleet desktop browser view.

Examples of fix for 2 browsers, Edge and Chrome:

If I changed any of the display settings on my VM, the issue would reappear.

tldr: So it seems like the issue for me is running Windows as a VM in VM Ware on mac with a retina display. The solution is only to install VMWare Tools > Complete package and not modify the display settings for my VM.

Let me know if that fixes your Win 11 issues as well. I think we can document this somewhere and close it out as a non-bug. Let me know if you agree.

[RachelElysia]

Perplexity.ai's answer: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/What-can-be-3snjhdWnRGK77r2Pi_wDNQ

[RachelElysia]

@getvictor bump

In passing you mentioned you have a different VM setup. Just wanted to confirm you're only seeing this on a VM and see if there's settings that will fix this issue for you as well or if there's a VM agnostic solution.

[getvictor]

Yes, I'm seeing it in a VM running on QEMU+KVM with the following display settings:

Changing resolution to 1920x1080 doesn't fix the issue.

[getvictor]

It is curious that I can't reproduce it on fonts.google.com, which suggests there is something in our styling that's causing this.

[ari-wein]

Just adding here that I see the same issue, running windows on bare metal with chrome on fleet 4.53.1. My resolution is 2560x1440, and the problem only really goes away when I zoom in to 250%. It also happens on the 1920x1080 laptop screen.

[ari-wein]

It looks like the font family changed? Im not a CSS expert at all, but some poking shows that the font family on an older instance of fleet had the font family Nunito Sans while the latest version has Inter. manually changing it back to Nunito Sans fixed the issue for me. looks to have changed in this commit: https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/commit/49eb3885f80b906f825b9b66d312549c7219ade8