bug#32835: Icecat is missing fonts (on foreign distro)

bug#32835: Icecat is missing fonts (on foreign distro)

[Björn Höfling]

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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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bug#32835: Icecat is missing fonts (on foreign distro)

[Julien Lepiller]

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

bug#32835: Icecat is missing fonts (on foreign distro)

[Ricardo Wurmus]

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”?

-- 
Ricardo

bug#32835: Icecat is missing fonts (on foreign distro)

[Björn Höfling]

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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?

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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bug#32835: Icecat is missing fonts (on foreign distro)

[Mike Gerwitz]

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 09:04:51 +0200, Björn Höfling wrote:
> 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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bug#32835: Icecat is missing fonts (on foreign distro)

[Ricardo Wurmus]

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

> 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.

> 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

bug#32835: Icecat is missing fonts (on foreign distro)

[Mark H Weaver]

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