Icecat doesn't display any text

Icecat doesn't display any text

[TK]

It substitutes anything textual on a page with boxes. I am running  a hybrid system CentOS 7/ Guix package manager.

guix --version returns this string:
guix (GNU Guix) 710f027765079db7e5a9ea31faedf42e8748600c!

I have the usual font- packages installed and other X11 apps have no such problems (e.g. chromium)

Re: Icecat doesn't display any text

[Raghav Gururajan]

> It substitutes anything textual on a page with boxes.

Custom fonts have been disabled my default I persume. Usually in
IceCat, if you create new tab, it would show list of options. Try
enabling the custom fonts. ☺

Regards,
RG.

Re: Icecat doesn't display any text

[Todor Kondić]

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 18:19, Raghav Gururajan <rvgn@disroot.org> wrote:

>
>
> > It substitutes anything textual on a page with boxes.
>
> Custom fonts have been disabled my default I persume. Usually in
> IceCat, if you create new tab, it would show list of options. Try
> enabling the custom fonts. ☺
>
> Regards,
> RG.

I solved it by either,

* installing bunch of new fonts
* running fc-cache -f
* re-sourcing .guix-profile/etc/profile
* hash guix

or some combination of the above.

Now gotta kill and reload all those VNC connections to the server in case sourcing the profile somehow did it (not likely)...

Re: Icecat doesn't display any text

[Raghav Gururajan]

> I solved it by either,
> 
> * installing bunch of new fonts
> * running fc-cache -f
> * re-sourcing .guix-profile/etc/profile
> * hash guix
> 
> or some combination of the above.
> 
> Now gotta kill and reload all those VNC connections to the server in
> case sourcing the profile somehow did it (not likely)...

Cool! ☺

Regards,
RG.

Re: Icecat doesn't display any text

[Mike Gerwitz]

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On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 16:32:45 +0000, Todor Kondić wrote:
> I solved it by either,
>
> * installing bunch of new fonts
> * running fc-cache -f
> * re-sourcing .guix-profile/etc/profile
> * hash guix
>
> or some combination of the above.

Sourcing the profile would define XDG_DATA_DIRS, which is required for
font display.  Installing fonts and running fc-cache may have provided
fonts in ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts, which is part of XDG_DATA_DIRS.

This is a known issue (which I experience when running Icecat in a
container) that hopefully can be addressed by someone who knows a bit
more than me about the proper way to fix the problem. :)  It's a problem
for people on foreign distros.

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Re: Icecat doesn't display any text

[Todor Kondić]

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 03:20, Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 16:32:45 +0000, Todor Kondić wrote:
>
> > I solved it by either,
> >
> > -   installing bunch of new fonts
> > -   running fc-cache -f
> > -   re-sourcing .guix-profile/etc/profile
> > -   hash guix
> >
> > or some combination of the above.
>
> Sourcing the profile would define XDG_DATA_DIRS, which is required for
> font display. Installing fonts and running fc-cache may have provided
> fonts in ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts, which is part of XDG_DATA_DIRS.
>
> This is a known issue (which I experience when running Icecat in a
> container) that hopefully can be addressed by someone who knows a bit
> more than me about the proper way to fix the problem. :) It's a problem
> for people on foreign distros.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Mike Gerwitz
> Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer
> GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05
> https://mikegerwitz.com

... for some reasong XDG_DATA_DIRS does not exist anymore in my profile; you were right, the fact that this env var is not defined causes icecat garbage; do you by any chance know what package to install in order to set the variable?

Re: Icecat doesn't display any text

[Todor Kondić]

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 09:18, Todor Kondić <tk.code@protonmail.com> wrote:

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 03:20, Mike Gerwitz mtg@gnu.org wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 16:32:45 +0000, Todor Kondić wrote:
> >
> > > I solved it by either,
> > >
> > > -   installing bunch of new fonts
> > > -   running fc-cache -f
> > > -   re-sourcing .guix-profile/etc/profile
> > > -   hash guix
> > >
> > > or some combination of the above.
> >
> > Sourcing the profile would define XDG_DATA_DIRS, which is required for
> > font display. Installing fonts and running fc-cache may have provided
> > fonts in ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts, which is part of XDG_DATA_DIRS.
> > This is a known issue (which I experience when running Icecat in a
> > container) that hopefully can be addressed by someone who knows a bit
> > more than me about the proper way to fix the problem. :) It's a problem
> > for people on foreign distros.
> >
> > Mike Gerwitz
> > Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer
> > GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05
> > https://mikegerwitz.com
>
> ... for some reasong XDG_DATA_DIRS does not exist anymore in my profile; you were right, the fact that this env var is not defined causes icecat garbage; do you by any chance know what package to install in order to set the variable?



My workaround at the moment is to create a bash script,
#!/bin/bash
XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.guix-profile/share" icecat "$@"

called icecat and residing earlier in the path than the real icecat.

Re: Icecat doesn't display any text

[ison]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 07:18:35AM +0000, Todor Kondić wrote:
> ... for some reasong XDG_DATA_DIRS does not exist anymore in my profile; you were right, the fact that this env var is not defined causes icecat garbage; do you by any chance know what package to install in order to set the variable?

Are you able to verify that the file $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile contains
no reference to XDG_DATA_DIRS?
For example:
grep $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile -e XDG_DATA_DIRS

If it doesn't and you have icecat installed then that could be a bug. I don't
think there's any special package you need to install to get the correct env
vars.

Can you also check the value of $GUIX_PROFILE and set it to $HOME/.guix-profile
if it's blank, and then try icecat again?