I don't know if it's the best method to handle this but I tried just applying the patch manually with substitute*s.

Whatever point the codebase in the patch is, what's being pulled down by Guix doesn't seem to be there yet as one of the files was entirely missing but adding the file manually didn't seem to disturb anything and everything was able to build alright, for me.

I'm now typing this from Qutebrowser, built with my altered QTwebengine, and I've got proper text rendering (at least, for the sites I first noticed text rendering failing at and sites that had worked properly, to begin with).

On Wednesday, January 5, 2022, 01:09:58 PM CST, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:


On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 02:08:08PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 07:04:57PM +0100, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> > Alternatively, to fix the issues with missing text, backporting this
> > patch should suffice:
> > https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwebengine-chromium/+/374232
>
> I'm testing this now.


Oh, the patch does not apply to the source code of our qtwebengine
package. So, I hope that somebody else will take a look and try to fix
this bug.