Icecat is missing fonts (on foreign distro)

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Andreas Enge
Björn Höfling
Julien Lepiller
Yoshinori Arai
Maxim Cournoyer
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Mark H Weaver
Mike Gerwitz
Ricardo Wurmus

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Björn Höfling wrote on 25 Sep 2018 09:04

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I was curious about the new IceCat 60 and it's CSS problem, so I tried

to install it.

I'm on on Ubuntu+Guix:

guix --version

guix (GNU Guix) a68b45142373dd75bc96f9c4f8151bcd4e972888

installed it in a separate profile:

guix package -p guix-test-profile -i icecat

Then started it:

guix-test-profile/bin/icecat

On the command line, it showed one message (is this relevant or just

part of the usual Gtk-Noise?):

Gtk-Message: 08:50:02.414: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

When Icecat is up, it looks "normal" and can be used normally [the

more images a site uses, the better the user experience is :-)], just

that ALL letters are just boxes with numbers in them (i.e. what you

usually see only partially when some wired UTF-sign is not installed).

As this is not related to the CSS-Problem, I open a new bug.

Screenshot attached.

Björn

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Julien Lepiller wrote on 25 Sep 2018 10:36

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Le 2018-09-25 09:04, Björn Höfling a écrit�:

Toggle quote (32 lines)> I was curious about the new IceCat 60 and it's CSS problem, so I tried
> to install it.
> 
> I'm on on Ubuntu+Guix:
> 
>  guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) a68b45142373dd75bc96f9c4f8151bcd4e972888
> 
> installed it in a separate profile:
> 
> guix package -p guix-test-profile -i icecat
> 
> Then started it:
> 
> guix-test-profile/bin/icecat
> 
> On the command line, it showed one message (is this relevant or just
> part of the usual Gtk-Noise?):
> 
> Gtk-Message: 08:50:02.414: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
> 
> When Icecat is up, it looks "normal" and can be used normally [the
> more images a site uses, the better the user experience is :-)], just
> that ALL letters are just boxes with numbers in them (i.e. what you
> usually see only partially when some wired UTF-sign is not installed).
> 
> As this is not related to the CSS-Problem, I open a new bug.
> 
> Screenshot attached.
> 
> Björn

 From a foreign distro, with "guix system --ad-hoc icecat -- icecat", I 
can
read text normally.

Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 25 Sep 2018 11:25

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Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> writes:

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> When Icecat is up, it looks "normal" and can be used normally [the

> more images a site uses, the better the user experience is :-)], just

> that ALL letters are just boxes with numbers in them (i.e. what you

> usually see only partially when some wired UTF-sign is not installed).

Does this happen even after installing fonts and running “fc-cache -f”?

Ricardo

Björn Höfling wrote on 25 Sep 2018 15:49

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On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:25:40 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

Toggle quote (12 lines)> Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> writes:
> 
> > When Icecat is up, it looks "normal" and can be used normally [the
> > more images a site uses, the better the user experience is :-)],
> > just that ALL letters are just boxes with numbers in them (i.e.
> > what you usually see only partially when some wired UTF-sign is not
> > installed).  
> 
> Does this happen even after installing fonts and running “fc-cache
> -f”?
> 

Do I have to do that in Guix or on the foreign distro?

If in Guix, where is fc-cache and which font package should I choose?

Hm, some days ago I installed also in an isolated profile icecat in

that vesion:

GNU IceCat 52.6.0

I don't know anymore the guix version that one is from, but that works

as expected.

Björn

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Mike Gerwitz wrote on 25 Sep 2018 18:48

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 09:04:51 +0200, Björn Höfling wrote:

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> When Icecat is up, it looks "normal" and can be used normally [the

> more images a site uses, the better the user experience is :-)], just

> that ALL letters are just boxes with numbers in them (i.e. what you

> usually see only partially when some wired UTF-sign is not installed).

I run IceCat within a container, and I noticed that upgrading to 60
caused for me the issue that you are describing.

But if I run IceCat normally (as installed to my profile), fonts are
fine.

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Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 25 Sep 2018 22:05

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Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> writes:

Toggle quote (17 lines)> On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:25:40 +0200
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>
>> Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> writes:
>> 
>> > When Icecat is up, it looks "normal" and can be used normally [the
>> > more images a site uses, the better the user experience is :-)],
>> > just that ALL letters are just boxes with numbers in them (i.e.
>> > what you usually see only partially when some wired UTF-sign is not
>> > installed).  
>> 
>> Does this happen even after installing fonts and running “fc-cache
>> -f”?
>> 
>
> Do I have to do that in Guix or on the foreign distro?

On the foreign distro.

Toggle quote (2 lines)

> If in Guix, where is fc-cache and which font package should I choose?

The “fontconfig” package provides fc-cache. See the subsection “X11

Fonts” under “Application Setup” in the manual.

Ricardo

Andreas Enge wrote on 27 Jan 2019 16:54

Re: icecat show many warning and don't display correctly

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Message-ID:20190127155410.GC10186@jurong

Hello,

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 07:57:40AM -0800, Quiliro Ordonez wrote:

Toggle quote (17 lines)> El 2019-01-07 21:41, ???? escribió:
> > It's working. 
> > 
> > export
> > XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.guix-profile/share${XDG_DATA_DIRS:+:}$XDG_DATA_DIRS"
> 
> icecat &
> does not work.
> 
> export
> XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.guix-profile/share${XDG_DATA_DIRS:+:}$XDG_DATA_DIRS"
> && icecat &
> works perfectly.
> 
> Must something be modified on the software definition? This is not
> something the user should change.

this seems to be the same problem as bug #32835, which I am cc-ing.

Do we need to add search paths? Or wrap a binary?

Andreas

Yoshinori Arai wrote on 28 Jan 2019 02:31

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On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 04:54:10PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:

Toggle quote (26 lines)> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 07:57:40AM -0800, Quiliro Ordonez wrote:
> > El 2019-01-07 21:41, ???? escribió:
> > > It's working. 
> > > 
> > > export
> > > XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.guix-profile/share${XDG_DATA_DIRS:+:}$XDG_DATA_DIRS"
> > 
> > icecat &
> > does not work.
> > 
> > export
> > XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.guix-profile/share${XDG_DATA_DIRS:+:}$XDG_DATA_DIRS"
> > && icecat &
> > works perfectly.
> > 
> > Must something be modified on the software definition? This is not
> > something the user should change.
> 
> this seems to be the same problem as bug #32835, which I am cc-ing.
> Do we need to add search paths? Or wrap a binary?
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 

I think it's no problem if 'source "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile"'

is written in user's bash_profile.

I'm afraid my response is out of your point.

Andreas Enge wrote on 30 Jan 2019 18:01

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:31:29AM +0900, Yoshinori Arai wrote:

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> I think it's no problem if 'source "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile"'

> is written in user's bash_profile.

I already do, but this is not enough. Installing icecat into the user profile
does not cause XDG* environment variables to be set in $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile.
It may work incidentally when other installed packages cause the variable
to be set.

Andreas

Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 30 Jan 2019 19:02

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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

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> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:31:29AM +0900, Yoshinori Arai wrote:

>> I think it's no problem if 'source "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile"'

>> is written in user's bash_profile.

> I already do, but this is not enough. Installing icecat into the user profile

> does not cause XDG* environment variables to be set in $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile.

> It may work incidentally when other installed packages cause the variable

> to be set.

The solution might be to use glib-or-gtk-build-system instead of

gnu-build-system. This would wrap the binary in the required

variables.

Would someone like to try this before we make the change in the master

branch?

Ricardo

Andreas Enge wrote on 31 Jan 2019 11:30

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 07:02:29PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:

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> The solution might be to use glib-or-gtk-build-system instead of

> gnu-build-system. This would wrap the binary in the required

> variables.

> Would someone like to try this before we make the change in the master

> branch?

Okay, I will give it a try.

Andreas

Andreas Enge wrote on 31 Jan 2019 11:47

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 07:02:29PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:

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> The solution might be to use glib-or-gtk-build-system instead of

> gnu-build-system. This would wrap the binary in the required

> variables.

> Would someone like to try this before we make the change in the master

> branch?

I did and nothing changed. I was a bit surprised that icecat does not get

rebuilt. In any case, XDG_DATA_DIRS still does not appear as an environment

variable in $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile after installing icecat.

Andreas

Maxim Cournoyer wrote on 31 Jan 2019 14:24

Re: bug#32835: icecat show many warning and don't display correctly

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Hello,

On January 31, 2019 10:47:23 AM UTC, Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:

Toggle quote (13 lines)>On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 07:02:29PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> The solution might be to use glib-or-gtk-build-system instead of
>> gnu-build-system.  This would wrap the binary in the required
>> variables.
>> 
>> Would someone like to try this before we make the change in the
>master
>> branch?
>
>I did and nothing changed. I was a bit surprised that icecat does not
>get
>rebuilt.

Then something is wrong. Changing something as important should have definitly triggered a rebuild.

Are you modifying a git checkout of Guide and prefixing all of the Guix commands with "./pre-inst-env" ?

Maxim

Andreas Enge wrote on 31 Jan 2019 17:23

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On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 01:24:03PM +0000, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:

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> Then something is wrong. Changing something as important should have definitly triggered a rebuild.

> Are you modifying a git checkout of Guide and prefixing all of the Guix commands with "./pre-inst-env" ?

Apologies, I must have made a mistake. Trying again a new build starts.

Andreas

Andreas Enge wrote on 31 Jan 2019 17:35

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Well, things are more delicate than that. It is not enough to just swap the
build system, something probably also needs to be done around these lines
in the build recipe:
       #:modules ((ice-9 ftw)
                  (ice-9 rdelim)
                  (ice-9 match)
                  ,@%gnu-build-system-modules)

Also, the binary is already wrapped:
         (add-after 'install 'wrap-program
           (lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys)
             (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
                    (lib (string-append out "/lib"))
                    (gtk (assoc-ref inputs "gtk+"))
                    (gtk-share (string-append gtk "/share")))
               (wrap-program (car (find-files lib "^icecat$"))
                 `("XDG_DATA_DIRS" ":" prefix (,gtk-share)))
               #t))))))

I am deferring to someone more knowledgeable...

Andreas

Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 4 Feb 2019 14:21

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merge 33996 32835

thanks

This is a duplicate of 32835. Let’s continue the discussion there.

Ricardo

Mark H Weaver wrote on 23 Oct 2019 12:56

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Here's a very hacky workaround that worked for me, while testing a

preliminary IceCat 68.2 build on a Debian system: make

~/.config/fontconfig be a symlink to /etc/fonts.

Mark

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote on 10 Feb 2020 11:07

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merge 39538 32835

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