Icecat is missing fonts

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  • Adonay Felipe Nogueira
  • Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
  • Ricardo Wurmus
  • swedebugia
  • Tadeus Prastowo
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swedebugia wrote on 6 Jan 2019 11:31
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Hi
After installing Icecat on guixsd v0.16 and starting it it shows onlysquares instead of text and pango warns "missing font nimbus ..."
I think we should add font-gnu-freefont-ttf to the input of icecat tofix this to make it work out of the box.
If on a foreign distribution guix should of course also notice if thecorrect XDG-env variables are missing when installing icecat and hint.
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Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote on 6 Jan 2019 19:17
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Em 06/01/2019 08:31, swedebugia@riseup.net escreveu:
Toggle quote (3 lines)> After installing Icecat on guixsd v0.16 and starting it it shows only> squares instead of text and pango warns "missing font nimbus ..."
This behavior seems similar to what I experience while using Guix inTrisquel 8.0Flidas. The problem doesn't cause squares to appear, it actually causesthe last text font that fontconfig advertises to IceCat, to be selected.
I don't know how fontconfig selects these fonts, but I noticed that youcan test this by placing some font in "~/.local/share/fonts" and running`fc-cache -vf'. IceCat should pick that font. You might need to try withdifferent fonts, as IceCat seems to expect from fontconfig that itselects fonts with specific properties.
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Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 4 Feb 2019 14:21
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merge 33996 32835thanks
This is a duplicate of 32835. Let’s continue the discussion there.
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Tadeus Prastowo wrote on 23 Mar 2019 01:00
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I just downloaded v0.16 and installed it on the bare hardware usingthe minimal desktop configuration (the one whose example includes`ratpoison').
After `guix package -i icecat', running it will show boxes as reportedby the OP. I confirm that OP's solution of `guix package -ifont-gnu-freefont-ttf' fixes this problem. Can't this be fixed at itsroot, please? It has been two months.
Thank you.
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swedebugia wrote on 24 Mar 2019 20:50
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On 2019-03-23 01:00, Tadeus Prastowo wrote:
Toggle quote (9 lines)> I just downloaded v0.16 and installed it on the bare hardware using> the minimal desktop configuration (the one whose example includes> `ratpoison').> > After `guix package -i icecat', running it will show boxes as reported> by the OP. I confirm that OP's solution of `guix package -i> font-gnu-freefont-ttf' fixes this problem. Can't this be fixed at its> root, please? It has been two months.
This is definitely not hard :)
Would you like to submit a patch with font-gnu-freefont-ttf as input (or maybe propagated input?) to icecat?
I did not do it for various reasons one being that testing the patch requires building icecat.
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Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 25 Mar 2019 09:46
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swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:
Toggle quote (3 lines)> Would you like to submit a patch with font-gnu-freefont-ttf as input> (or maybe propagated input?) to icecat?
Let’s not rush to conclusions. We usually don’t add fonts to inputsunless they are required at build time.
As far as I’m aware of the problem was that XDG environment variableswere not set (or the executables were not sufficiently wrapped). Hasthis been confirmed yet?
Users should be free to pick whatever font they want – or choose to notinstall any additional fonts.
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote on 10 Feb 2020 11:07
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