Strange overlap behavior in appearance panel (PCBnew)

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Has anyone else experienced this behavior?

Layers panel selected (everything okay)
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Objects panel selected (text overlapped)
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Here’s my kicad info
Application: KiCad PCB Editor x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 9.0.3-9.0.3-0~ubuntu24.04.1, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.4
FreeType 2.13.2
HarfBuzz 8.3.0
FontConfig 2.15.0
libcurl/8.5.0 OpenSSL/3.0.13 zlib/1.3 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.5 libidn2/2.3.7 libpsl/0.21.2 (+libidn2/2.3.7) libssh/0.10.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.59.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.6.7

Platform: Linux Mint 22.1, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, X11, mate, x11
OpenGL: NVIDIA Corporation, NVIDIA GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2, 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.256.02

Build Info:
Date: Jul 8 2025 13:02:59
wxWidgets: 3.2.4 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.83.0
OCC: 7.6.3
Curl: 8.5.0
ngspice: 42
Compiler: GCC 13.3.0 with C++ ABI 1018
KICAD_IPC_API=ON

Locale:
Lang: en_GB
Enc: UTF-8
Num: 1,234.5
Encoded кΩ丈: D0BACEA9E4B888 (sys), D0BACEA9E4B888 (utf8)

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Being warned at launch of known issues that depend on drivers or OS versions could reduce the number of posts like this and save time. :slight_smile:

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We don’t know which driver versions cause this.

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Replies in the issue suggest it may be caused by incorrect OS update process or other configuration, since it doesn’t reproduce on a clean OS install. And it appears not driver-dependent.

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Indeed I’ve installed kicad v9 in an upgraded Linux Mint from 20 to 21. Not a fresh install.

I suspected that it might be something related to this upgrade, but since I was able to do it without any problems (and without any errors), I wanted to ask in the forum to be sure. I hadn’t seen any messages related to this issue. Sorry if I caused any inconvenience.

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It is clear that this issue does not appear from a fresh Linux install and it is not driver dependent but…

I have seen that this is the only panel that fails. The rest of the KiCad panels/menus work as expected.

Switching between Layers and Nets panels works fine without overlap.

Switching Objects → Layers and Objects → Nets also works fine

The panel visualization fails (overlap) when switching Layers or Nets to Objects.

I find that strange. Is there anything that can be improved to fix this issue regardless of whether you start with a fresh install or not? This would prevent unnecessary posts like mine :wink: