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Who is Become a → Proudly published with WordPress. Fix macOS Mojave Font Rendering Issue Just updated to macOS Mojave only to find out that there is a terrible font rendering issue for almost all the ElectronJS based apps like my code editor of choice. After researching a little bit, messing around with system defaults, less to my surprise, I found out that Apple has disabled Subpixel antialiasing for text in macOS Mojave. Little more research led to a fix, all you have to do is open up your Terminal application ( COMMAND (⌘) + SPACE then search for Terminal) and run the following command. Defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool FALSE. ? Explanation: What’s Happening In there?!
Some folks in the comments asked about how I stumbled upon this fix, so for the sake of technical know-how, I am updating this post with more details. ? Apple’s macOS normally has a set of defaults that you can change programmatically. I have such an opinionated workflow for whenever I install my OS from scratch. That’s a story for another day. ? I remember in the past, with High Sierra, I had to enable subpixel font rendering on non-Apple LCDs. That was the AppleFontSmoothing option which I set to true, or one could directly add -int 1 for that option. ? I was unable to find that setting in macOS Mojave defaults.
I kept looking in there. Especially in the Apple Global Domain settings, since that’s where the old setting was. I found a new setting in there, it’s called CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled — it’s quite evident what this setting does. Disables the rendering of smooth fonts. It was set to 1 which means it was set to TRUE or YES. So, all I had to do to try my luck was to disable this font smoothing disabler, i.e.
Ran into the same issue recently. Currently using the follow to launch another instance of VS from terminal. Will look to package that into a shortcut to add to dock in similar fashion as this MSSolutionLauncher.
Enable to font smoothing on non-Apple/non-retina LEDs. For that I wrote this following command: defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool FALSE. defaults — access the Mac OS X user defaults system. −g −globalDomain NSGlobalDomain — Specifies the global domain.
’-g’ and ’-globalDomain’ may be used as synonyms for NSGlobalDomain. CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled — the setting which I wanted to disable to enable the font smoothing. −bool ean — Allows the user to specify a boolean as the value for the given preference key. The value must be TRUE/YES or FALSE/NO I ran this command, checked if it worked, by logging out and in, and boy it did. I wish Apple fixes this instead of disabling this option altogether in the near future updates.
Is there a reason why the visual studio for Mac takes a life for loading the project (7-10min), restoring packages (3-5 min) and around 15-20 min to build and start the app???? I have Mac OS and I also run a VM on it (Parallels) which has VS 2017 installed on it.
The project on the VM does not take that much time compared to Mac OS, yet its not running smooth too though!!! I deleted the Vs folder to force a new clean build but yet I do see any improvements.
I m running the project on Macbook Pro (3.1 CPU and 16 GB RAM) Any ideas???? Hi, I try to refer the description and I try to contact MSDN Visual Studio Support team. I confirm with them that the best suitable forum for this issue is so I suggest you to post your question there and they will try to provide further suggestion to solve your issue and close this current thread. The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding. Regards Deepak.