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Krogash86

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From: France, Picardie, Gamaches

Registered: 2016-08-03

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Gimp bug with i3 window manager

Hi, i have an annoying bug, i use i3 and everything is working fine until i decide to install gimp all the fonts in i3 are going nuts and they become symbols only. When i uninstall gimp everything is going back to normal font can you help me i really want to use gimp and i3 ty

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mpan

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Re: Gimp bug with i3 window manager

When talking about problems with rendering, it would be wise to provide an image that depicts the issue…

Not using i3 myself, but gimp itself doesn’t contain anything¹ that could affect i3. Possibly some dependency causes this? fontconfig and freetype2 are among the deps. If they’re not the reason, with gimp not installed, do:

$ packages=(acl atk attr avahi babl bash bzip2 cairo compositeproto coreutils cracklib damageproto db dbus dbus-glib desktop-file-utils e2fsprogs elfutils expat filesystem fixesproto fontconfig fontsproto freetype2 gcc-libs gdbm gdk-pixbuf2 gegl02 gimp glib2 glibc gmp gnutls graphite gsfonts gtk2 gtk-update-icon-cache harfbuzz hicolor-icon-theme hwids iana-etc ilmbase inputproto iptables jasper kbd kbproto keyutils kmod krb5 lcms lcms2 libcap libcroco libcups libdaemon libdatrie libdrm libedit libelf libexif libffi libfontenc libgcrypt libglade libgpg-error libgudev libice libidn libjpeg-turbo libldap libmng libmnl libnftnl libomxil-bellagio libpciaccess libpng librsvg libsasl libseccomp libsm libspiro libsystemd libtasn1 libthai libtiff libtirpc libtxc_dxtn libusb libutil-linux libwmf libx11 libxau libxcb libxcomposite libxcursor libxdamage libxdmcp libxext libxfixes libxfont libxft libxi libxinerama libxml2 libxmu libxpm libxrandr libxrender libxshmfence libxt libxxf86vm linux-api-headers llvm-libs lz4 lzo mesa mesa-libgl ncurses nettle openexr openssl p11-kit pam pambase pango pcre perl pixman pygobject2-devel pygtk python2 python2-cairo python2-gobject2 randrproto readline renderproto shadow shared-mime-info sqlite systemd tzdata util-linux wayland xcb-proto xextproto xf86vidmodeproto xineramaproto xorg-bdftopcf xorg-font-util xorg-font-utils xorg-mkfontdir xorg-mkfontscale xproto xz zlib)
$ (expac %n "${packages[@]}"; printf '%s\n' "${packages[@]}") | sort | uniq -u

This should print all packages that are dependants of gimp (2.8.18-1), and aren’t installed. Possibly this will be some hint.
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¹ It touches things in /usr/share/locale, but the scenario that would lead to a described problem is something I can hardly grasp while it flies on the brim of my imagination.

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