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(a)redhat.com
Reporter: dvd(a)redhat.com
QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
CC: ajax(a)redhat.com, caillon+fedoraproject(a)gmail.com,
fonts-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
gnome-sig(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
i18n-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, mclasen(a)redhat.com,
pnemade(a)redhat.com, rhughes(a)redhat.com,
rstrode(a)redhat.com, sandmann(a)redhat.com,
tagoh(a)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-...
https://forum.inkdrop.app/t/snap-with-no-visible-letters-in-system-dialog...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Talk:Snap
https://githubmemory.com/repo/snapcrafters/codium/issues/6
https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/426
~~~
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