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ornitorrincos

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From: Bilbao, spain

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 198

steam no fonts

the problem is basically what appears in the wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/st … or_missing

I can see no text on steam

but installing ttf-liberation, installing steam-fonts, or manually getting the fonts form windows neither work.

the error among other with other fonts is:
/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/vgui2/src/../vgui_surfacelib/linuxfont.cpp (402) : Assertion Failed: Unable to find font named Arial

later followed by:
/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/vgui2/src/surface_opengl.cpp (838) : Assertion Failed: !"Current texture not set"
/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/vgui2/src/surface_opengl.cpp (500) : Assertion Failed: GetTextureForString failed

but when I run fc-match:

[ornitorrincos@acheron ~]$ fc-match -s "Arial"
arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"
ariblk.ttf: "Arial" "Black"
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Oblique"
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold Oblique"
...

any ideas?

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vi2nano

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Registered: 2014-11-27

Posts: 8

Re: steam no fonts

You may need to just disable dwrite. This should do it for you

wine reg add 'HKCU\Software\Valve\Steam' /v DWriteEnable /t REG_DWORD /d 00000000

[EDIT] This solution came directly from https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. … &iId=19444
I know I encounter this whenever I install a steam based game through wine.

Last edited by vi2nano (2014-12-10 03:41:29)

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 1,986

Re: steam no fonts

If you are running the native Linux Steam client on a 64 bit system then you probably have to install the 32 bit freetype2:

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sor … =&flagged=

If you are running Steam through wine then you'll probably need that too anyway.

If you are running 32 bit Arch then this does not apply.

Last edited by headkase (2014-12-10 04:56:07)

vi2nano

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Registered: 2014-11-27

Posts: 8

Re: steam no fonts

Thank you, I didn't realize I only provided a response under the assumption it was with wine, And for that I'm sorry

ornitorrincos

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From: Bilbao, spain

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 198

Re: steam no fonts

thanks for the answers, unfortunately I do have lib32-freetype2 installed

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: steam no fonts

$ fc-match -s "Arial"
arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"

It seems surprisingly common that people mess up the permissions on the font files.

ornitorrincos

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From: Bilbao, spain

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 198

Re: steam no fonts

thanks, but still same issue

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iMicq

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2014-12-09

Posts: 9

Re: steam no fonts

Try to run "steam --reset", and delete content of htmlcache folder...

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ornitorrincos

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From: Bilbao, spain

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 198

Re: steam no fonts

nope, still the same issue, thanks anyway

EDIT: after several tries running steam --reset it seems to place squares on instead of letters, and if I run steam --reset agin it seems to be a matter of chance if it works or not.

Last edited by ornitorrincos (2014-12-24 14:18:32)

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