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#1 2014-10-05 00:51:14
- welpert
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[SOLVED] Fonts in the chromium UI are garbled
Hi,
Fonts in the chromium UI are garbled like this:
Pop-up menus are also garbled.
Does anyone out there know how this could happen?
The problem makes my favorite web browser almost unusable, as I cannot see what I'm typing and cannot read the UI menus. Navigating becomes sort of like walking through a room blindfolded.
I have searched google and these forums but did not encounter the exact same problem elsewhere.
Since this is the first time I have encountered this, and this happened on quite a fresh install on a laptop, I might resort to another clean install and not install the unused theming stuff I have installed now (and that I didn't keep track of). I suspect this has something to do with GTK and Pango but I'm not quite sure..
But, if anyone has a suggestion..
Thanks!
## UPDATE
I solved the issue by installing google-chrome-dev from the AUR. First, my intention was just to see whether I would have the same problem with regular chrome. I did, but I also noticed something when I looked at the console output: fontconfig was throwing an error.
So I looked at my fontconfig version, and saw that it was fontconfig-git. I didn't need that to be the git version so I downgraded to fontconfig. After that everything was back to normal. So, there is some evidence that google-chrome-dev, chromium and chromium-dev do not work well tied to fontconfig-git. I am now a happy camper 
Last edited by welpert (2014-10-06 22:21:56)
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#2 2014-10-05 10:39:50
- oli74
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Re: [SOLVED] Fonts in the chromium UI are garbled
Did you install any new fonts in the /usr/share/fonts directory? I had the same problem with Firefox and I just ran chmod -R 755 on the new folder with the new fonts and problem solved.
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#3 2014-10-05 12:02:18
- welpert
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Re: [SOLVED] Fonts in the chromium UI are garbled
Did you install any new fonts in the /usr/share/fonts directory? I had the same problem with Firefox and I just ran chmod -R 755 on the new folder with the new fonts and problem solved.
Thanks! Tried it, didn't work 
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