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I opened Sublime Text 3 recently on my computer that runs Arch Linux and the text on the tabs and bottom bar looks like they've been cut in half horizontally.

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I tried uninstalling the sublime-text and reinstalling it. Same result. I also tried removing the package and installing the sublime-text-4 package. Same thing.

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  • Is it only with the sublime-text package that you are facing this issue? – Ebenezer Nikabou Aug 08 '23 at 16:24
  • @EbenezerNikabou Whether it's `sublime-text` or `sublime-text-4`, the result is the same. – Generic_User_ID Aug 08 '23 at 17:01
  • This is apparently a well-known issue. https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/increaseing-font-size-of-file-tabs-cuts-off-the-font/7009 – Ebenezer Nikabou Aug 08 '23 at 17:10
  • Doing some hacks like changing the font family and font size may resolve your issue. – Ebenezer Nikabou Aug 08 '23 at 17:11
  • @EbenezerNikabou How do I do that? – Generic_User_ID Aug 08 '23 at 17:55
  • I'm not sure about how to do it since I don't use sublime-text but you can try following this Stackoverflow link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25645565/changing-font-size-of-tabs-strip-in-sublime-text-3. – Ebenezer Nikabou Aug 08 '23 at 18:02
  • Also, this might not be what you want but you can also use vscode and sublime-text theme and keybinds instead. But as I said you might not be willing to change your current editor just for that issue. – Ebenezer Nikabou Aug 08 '23 at 18:06
  • Uninstalling and reinstalling does nothing because your user config remains behind. This issue is indicative of a font issue with the font the theme is using. So as a first step, make sure you're using ST4 and not ST3, and run it via `subl --safe-mode` to see if the problem persists. – OdatNurd Aug 14 '23 at 22:28
  • @OdatNurd The problem persists when I run `subl --safe-mode` – Generic_User_ID Aug 15 '23 at 21:03
  • To add some clarity to the answer below, if this is caused by fonts it's caused by the theme font, which isn't in your normal preferences. The road forward here would be to examine the theme that you're using to see what font it's using, and then use your distributions font tool to see what font is mapping to it. – OdatNurd Aug 16 '23 at 02:42
  • What build number of Sublime are you running? – OdatNurd Sep 02 '23 at 21:03

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Playing with your font settings in your preferences should fix the issue. Edit Sublime font preferences

I would also check through your installed linter(s) and see if they may be causing the issue.

Lastly check you computer's display settings and make sure your scaling is at 100% (probably not the issue at hand but worth a check).

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  • Changing font settings did not work for me. How do I check installed linters? I do not know what those are. – Generic_User_ID Aug 15 '23 at 21:22
  • Linting is the process of flagging suspicious constructs and likely to be bugs in any programming language. Linters do that flagging for you. If you have any installed plugins say like anaconda for python, they may come with a built in linter to pick up common mistakes, sometime these linters override default settings. Go to Sublime Text > Preferences > Package Settings and browse what you may have installed. – MUFF. Aug 16 '23 at 12:59
  • I have Package Control, PrettyJSON and EasyClangComplete in Package Settings. – Generic_User_ID Sep 01 '23 at 16:52