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Yax

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Registered: 2016-03-19

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] Font issue after update

Hi,
I'm having font issue after update. I'm not sure which package affected it but some application are not able to display font correctly.
It's something related with gtk/qt but I can't find what.

Chromium and wireshark-gtk:

http://imgur.com/a/8iIQw

http://imgur.com/a/h9gQ5

The same problem was with KeePassX but after I've changed GUI style in qtconfig-qt4 the font problem was solved.

I'm using fluxbox.

Thanks in advance

Last edited by Yax (2016-08-22 14:17:49)

Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 528

Re: [SOLVED] Font issue after update

Hello,

I'm not sure which package affected it but some application are not able to display font correctly.

you can find the culprit by downgrading the suspicious package ( pacman -U "previous_package" located in /var/cache/pacman/pkg ), if the bug disapears after downgrading then it's the faulty package,

the list of the recent upgraded packages can be found in /var/log/pacman.log,

could be a package related to fontconfig, fonts, or your desktop manager ( fluxbox ? )

could be also missing font packages, check if you have all required fonts :

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fo … t_packages

on my PC I have these fonts :

$ pacman -Qsq fonts
artwiz-fonts
font-bh-ttf
font-bitstream-speedo
fontsproto
ftgl
gsfonts
noto-fonts
sdl2_ttf
sdl_ttf
t1lib
ttf-bitstream-vera
ttf-cheapskate
ttf-dejavu
ttf-freefont
ttf-liberation
xorg-font-util
xorg-fonts-100dpi
xorg-fonts-75dpi
xorg-fonts-alias
xorg-fonts-encodings
xorg-fonts-misc
xorg-fonts-type1
xorg-mkfontscale

Last edited by Potomac (2016-08-22 12:20:11)

Yax

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Registered: 2016-03-19

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Font issue after update

The problem was that this happened few weeks ago and I didn't had time to troubleshoot. And in the meanwhile half of the system was updated .

I've installed your fonts and that solved the problem. One of the fonts which gtk uses was missing.

Thanks for the help

alex.theoto

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From: Athens Greece

Registered: 2014-11-30

Posts: 307

Re: [SOLVED] Font issue after update

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