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From: Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com>
To: 47204@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47204: DrRacket fonts issue
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 23:01:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31846af7-997e-ae9f-cf93-193167e49f64@philipmcgrath.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2103162303450.8138@marsh.hcoop.net>

Hi Jack,

I haven't been able to reproduce this yet, but I'm on a foreign distro, 
and I don't have any fonts explicitly installed via Guix. (For that 
matter, I don't have a monitor connected, just now: I've done this with 
X forwarding.) I do have a few debugging ideas you could try and see if 
they turn up anything interesting:

   - Setting the FC_DEBUG environment variable while running can cause
     fontconfig to emit debugging information to standard output.[1]

   - The command `racket -e "(require racket/draw)" -e "(get-face-list)"`
     should print the list of font family names Racket was able to
     discover.

   - If you start DrRacket at the command line, foreign libraries
     have been known to write useful information to standard out/error.
     Similarly, if, rather than using the `drracket` launcher, you use a
     command like `racket -l drracket`, then you can add additional flags
     like "-W" to control Racket's logging system.[2] Racket converts
     glib "log domains"[3] to "topics" in Racket's logging system, which
     might help get information from some of the related libraries.[4]
     (You can also view Racket logging within DrRacket, but it might be
     too late to help with this issue.)

   - You can try changing the font in DrRacket: if you use the
     "Edit|Preferences…" menu item, the "Font" tab is the first one,
     conveniently.

Hope some of this helps!

-Philip

[1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
[2]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/logging.html
[3]: 
https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Message-Logging.html#log-domains
[4]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/draw/libs.html




  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-27  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-17  3:09 bug#47204: DrRacket fonts issue Jack Hill
2021-03-27  3:01 ` Philip McGrath [this message]
2022-02-18 22:46   ` Jack Hill

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