https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1981500
Bug ID: 1981500 Summary: [f34] some snaps are having font display issues Product: Fedora Version: 34 OS: Linux Status: NEW Component: fontconfig Severity: medium Assignee: tagoh@redhat.com Reporter: dvd@redhat.com QA Contact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: ajax@redhat.com, caillon+fedoraproject@gmail.com, fonts-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org, gnome-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org, i18n-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org, mclasen@redhat.com, pnemade@redhat.com, rhughes@redhat.com, rstrode@redhat.com, sandmann@redhat.com, tagoh@redhat.com Target Milestone: --- Classification: Fedora
Description of problem: Installing some snaps like codium are having font issues in dialog windows.
This has been widely discussed upstream [1]
Tried multiple workarounds and none of them are working: ~~~ sudo rm /var/cache/fontconfig/* rm ~/.cache/fontconfig/* rm -f ~/snap/codium/current/.cache/ fc-cache -r -v snap run --shell codium fc-cache -r -v exit ~~~
I also tried this with VScodium running
Arch wiki [a] suspects it's an issue caused by fontconfig>=2.13.91
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fontconfig-2.13.93-6.fc34.x86_64 snapd-selinux-2.51-1.fc34.noarch snap-confine-2.51-1.fc34.x86_64 snapd-2.51-1.fc34.x86_64
How reproducible: All the time
Steps to Reproduce: 1. snap install codium 2. Open Folder dialog or any kind of dialog
Actual results: All the text is square instead of readable characters
Expected results: We should be able to read the text.
Additional info:
[a] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Talk:Snap
[1] ~~~ https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snapped-app-not-loading-fonts-on-fedora-and-arc... https://forum.inkdrop.app/t/snap-with-no-visible-letters-in-system-dialogs-o... https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Talk:Snap https://githubmemory.com/repo/snapcrafters/codium/issues/6 https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/426 ~~~