Characters and letters missing from windows' panels, Desktop and menus !

[smail-bechiche]

After a driver upgrade with the "Intel Graphics Installer for Linux", characters often disappear in the middle of the session, a refresh or mouse hover brings them back for a couple of seconds and the next restart fixes the problem, but not permanently.
How can I fix this ?! Please help.

Using : Ubuntu 14.04 64b, Gnome 3.12.2, Gnome Flashback session, gdm.
Hard : Intel® Core™ i5 CPU M 540, Graph : Intel® Ironlake Mobile.

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[ajgreeny]

Have you tried any changes in the font-rendering settings, wherever that is in Ubuntu-Gnome? Try different Hinting or Sub-pixel-ordering, as they can make quite a difference to font display.

[smail-bechiche]

Thank you #ajgreeny for your reply , I haven't changed anything for months, but because you mentioned it, I'll try modifying some related settings, hoping to find the proper ones.

[smail-bechiche]

Nothing useful, any ideas ?

[ajgreeny]

Sounds a bit like https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1342675

[smail-bechiche]

Reducing the windows' font size using ubuntu-tweak solved the problem for me. Thank you.